HONG KONG -- China's industrial production expanded at the slowest pace in five months in August, while growth in retail sales and investment also decelerated, putting Beijing's annual economic growth target of "around 5%" at risk.
Industrial output increased 4.5% from a year earlier, according to data published by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday. It was the slowest rate of increase since March and fell short of the consensus forecast for 4.7% growth in a Bloomberg poll.
