Retail sales slowdown highlights challenge of rebalancing

With the usual volatility around Chinese New Year and revisions to the way key data are collected clouding the view, about the only clear picture that emerges from China’s latest data is that retail sales growth has slumped. The consumer-led rebalancing at the heart of the Five-Year Plan has yet to begin.

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