BEIJING: China could miss its official growth target for the first time in 16 years, a snap poll of economists by Agence France-Presse shows after surprisingly weak data for January and February.

Industrial output, a key measure of production at factories, workshops and mines in the world’s second-largest economy, rose just 8.6 percent in the first two months of 2014, the slowest pace in five years, government figures showed on Thursday.

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