BEIJING: Chinese growth failed to accelerate in the second quarter despite government stimulus measures, an Agence France-Presse survey predicts, with the world’s second-largest economy forecast to record its worst annual performance in 24 years.

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 7.4 percent in the three months to June from the same period last year, according to the median forecast in Agence France-Presse’s survey of 17 economists.

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