China’s Q2 GDP growth met government targets at 5.2% YoY, but the recovery remains uneven beneath the headline numbers. High-tech manufacturing and services are driving growth, while real estate and retail sectors continue to struggle, highlighting structural challenges.

In the first half of the year, the world's second-largest economy expanded by 5.3 percent, the NBS said Tuesday.

China's economy grew 5.2% in the second quarter from a year earlier, official data showed on Tuesday, beating analysts' expectations by a touch and showing resilience in the face of U.S. tariffs. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) would expand 5.

China's economy slowed in the second quarter but bucked expectations of a larger slowdown in the face of U.S. tariffs, a property market slump and a sluggish global economy, official figures out Tuesday show.

The economy grew 4.3 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.