China’s latest economic output data that will be published on Monday will probably present Xi Jinping’s administration with another opportunity to trumpet the country’s rapid recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Economists expect the National Bureau of Statistics’ gross domestic product figures for the final three months of 2020 to cement the bouceback in the world’s second-largest economy after its historic downturn last year.
Recent virus outbreaks in Hebei, the province surrounding Beijing, showed that China was not immune from a significant resurgence of the disease. But its economic recovery and outlook for the coming year are still the stuff of envy for big economies in North America, Europe and the developing world.