An employee works next to a production line manufacturing bathroom cleaners to be exported at a factory in Sanmen county of Taizhou, Zhejiang province yesterday. The International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for China this year to 7.75 per cent from eight per cent, citing a weak world economy and exports, adding to concerns that the world’s second-largest economy is losing momentum.

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