“China’s economy shrank by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, the first contraction since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, confirming the economic damage done by the coronavirus pandemic,” the South China Morning Post reports.
China’s Economy Shrinks for First Time In Decades
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