Industrial China is alive and well despite concerns of economic slowdown

Data this past week showed a dismal picture: China's industrial output rose 3.8% from a year earlier, which was below expectations, fixed investment grew slower than forecast and credit was weak

Industrial China is alive and well despite concerns of an economic slowdown. It just doesn’t look like it did before — or at least, what everyone is used to.
 

Data this past week showed a dismal picture: Industrial output rose 3.8% from a year earlier, which was below expectations, fixed investment grew slower than forecast and credit, usually a sign the economy is pushing through, was weak. Property sector figures, long taken as an indication that authorities were going to keep developers’ debt-fueled building extravaganza on course, were depressing all around. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its gross domestic product