SHANGHAI -- China's economic growth continued to decelerate in the third quarter, as gross domestic product came in at 4.9%, dragged down by the country's zero-tolerance COVID measures and energy shortages.
The year-on-year GDP growth rate, published on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics for the three-month period through September, was below the 5% average expansion forecast by 29 economists in a Nikkei poll released earlier this month.
