China's GDP grows by 5.2% as population growth woes persist

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00:00 Except for 2021, when GDP rose 21.3% from the previous year, China's five-year economic

00:07 timeline has been deflating or discouraging as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged manufacturing

00:14 and just about every industry or economic sector.

00:17 In fact, in 2018, the economy grew just 2.77%, followed by a mediocre 2.86% rise in 2019

00:28 and barely chalked up a 3% growth in 2022, after the spectacular aberration in 2021.

00:35 Excluding the pandemic years, the 5.2% growth last year is among the weakest since 1990.

00:42 (gunshot)