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title: China economic slowdown deepens in August
description: "➡️ Retail sales rose 3.4% in August from a year earlier, missing analysts' estimates for a 3.9% growth and slowing from July's 3.7% growth.\n➡️ China’s industrial output growth slipped 5.2%, the worst performance since August last year.\n➡️ Fixed-asset investment, reported on a year-to-date basis, expanded just 0.5%, a sharp slowdown from the 1.6% expansion in the January to July period.\n➡️ China's survey-based urban unemployment rate in August came in at 5.3%.\n\nSource: CNBC"
---

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# [China economic slowdown deepens in August](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/china-economic-slowdown-deepens-in-august)

 Written by [Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/author/charles-henry-monchau) | Sep 15, 2025, 8:34:44 AM

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