Een stevige afkoeling van de Chinese economie? Vergeet het maar! Het jongste groeicijfer van China kwam over het tweede kwartaal van 2011 uit op 9,5%, boven de meeste analistenverwachtingen. Maar daar blijft het niet bij… Via WSJ:

BEIJING (Dow Jones)–China reported surprisingly robust economic growth for the second quarter, raising the prospect of further tightening to combat inflation. China’s second-quarter GDP rose 9.5% from a year earlier, compared with 9.7% growth in the first quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. Economists polled earlier had expected GDP to rise by 9.4%. The rate of growth increased on a sequential basis. GDP rose 2.2% from the preceding quarter, the statistics bureau said, compared with 2.1% growth in the first quarter. Growth from the previous quarter accelerated to 9.1% on an annualized basis, according to a Dow Jones Newswires calculation, compared with 8.7% growth in the first quarter. “You may ask, where is the slowdown?” said Standard Chartered economist Li Wei. Growth will still likely slow in the second half, he said, as policy will likely remain constrictive. “This strong data suggests the government will maintain a tight policy setting at least through the third quarter,” he said. Industrial production growth in June also came in much faster than expected, rising 15.1% from a year earlier, compared with 13.3% in May. Economists had expected it to slow to 13.1%.

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