Expect the first negative GDP print in over 40 years

China’s release next week of data for Q1 GDP will be perhaps the most remarkable of modern history. The statistics office often stands accused of smoothing fluctuations in GDP but we think it is likely to publish data showing that output contracted significantly in year-on-year terms, for the first time in the reform era.

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