Economics

First Into the Virus Slump, China Is Proving the Fastest Out

  • Recovery isn’t seamless but enough to see GDP expand this year
  • Investment, relative virus success behind stronger rebound

Workers labor at the construction site of an elevated highway on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, on June 12.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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China’s economy, the first to succumb to the coronavirus, is proving to be the fastest to recover.