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		</div><p>China&#8217;s economic growth edged down to 6.8% in the final quarter of 2015 as trade and consumer spending weakened, dragging full-year growth to its lowest in 25 years.</p>
<p>Growth has fallen steadily over the past five years as the ruling Communist Party tries to steer away from a worn-out model based on investment and trade toward self-sustaining growth driven by domestic consumption and services.</p>
<p>But the unexpectedly sharp decline over the past two years prompted fears of a politically dangerous spike in job losses.</p>
<p>Full-year growth declined to 6.9%, government data showed today.<br />
That was the lowest since sanctions imposed on Beijing following its crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement caused growth to plummet to 3.8% in 1990.</p>
<p>The October-December growth figure was the lowest quarterly expansion since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, when growth slumped to 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009.<br />
Growth in the July-September quarter of 2009 was 6.9%.</p>
<p>Growth in investment in factories, housing and other fixed assets, a key economic driver, weakened to 12% in 2015, down 2.9 percentage points from the previous year.</p>
<p>Retail sales growth cooled to 10.6% from 2014&#8217;s 12%.<br />
&#8220;The international situation remains complex,&#8221; said Wang Bao&#8217;an, commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics.<br />
&#8220;Restructuring and upgrading is in an uphill stage. </p>
<p>Comprehensively deepening reform is a daunting task.&#8221;<br />
Growth was in line with private sector forecasts and the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s official target of about 7% for the year.</p>
<p>Beijing responded to ebbing growth by cutting interest rates six times since November, 2014, and launched measures to help exporters and other industries.</p>
<p>But economists note China still relies on state-led construction spending and other investment.<br />
December exports shrank 1.4% from a year earlier, well below the ruling party&#8217;s target of 6% growth in total trade.</p>
<p>For the full year, exports were down 7.6%, a blow to industries that employ millions of Chinese workers.</p>
<p>Forecasters expect economic growth to decline further this year, with the International Monetary Fund targeting a 6.3% expansion.</p>
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