China growth falls to two-year low on COVID, property woes

Beijing has dug its heels in on a zero-COVID policy of stamping out virus clusters with snap lockdowns and long quarantines, but this has battered businesses

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People walk in a subway station in Beijing on July 15, 2022. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)
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China logged its slowest economic growth since the initial COVID outbreak Friday, expanding just 0.4 percent in the second quarter with lockdowns and property market weakness pushing the government's target