Just as the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic was drawing to a close, China's policy pendulum swung from stamping out and controlling the virus's spread toward spurring economic growth, leaving everyone pondering: How will the world's second-largest economy perform in 2023?
China in late November began abandoning most pandemic restrictions, ending the hyper-strict zero-COVID strategy that had taken an increasingly heavy toll on its economy and people.
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