SHANGHAI -- China's gross domestic product growth slowed to 4.0% on the year in the fourth quarter of 2021, delivering a full-year result of 8.1%, as a COVID-19 resurgence and a real estate downturn combined to restrain economic momentum.
The figures, announced on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics, beat the average forecasts of 3.3% for the quarter and 7.9% for the year in a Nikkei poll of economists released last month.
