A woman walks past shelves at a shoe market in Hefei, Anhui province yesterday. China’s economy likely grew at its slowest pace in nearly three years between January and March at just 8.3 per cent, which would be the lowest level since the second quarter of 2009. In the last quarter of 2011, the year-on-year rate was 8.9 per cent.

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