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A government-backed think tank is predicting first quarter gross domestic product growth to fall to 6.85 percent Lars Stindl Fußball Trikot , as a vice-finance minister said this year could be the "most challenging" economic environment since the global financial crisis in 2008.


A report by the National Academy of Economic Strategy, under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said GDP growth will slip from the fourth quarter's 7.3 percent and the key inflation gauge, the consumer price index, will rise 1.2 percent year-on-year in the first quarter.