[Anchor]
New official figures from China say the country's economic recovery has continued to rebound from COVID-19 lockdowns in the third quarter, but has fallen slightly short of forecasts.
The BBC's Robin Brant has the details.
[Reporter]
China, at the beginning of the year -- that calamitous coronavirus outbreak -- its economy contracted by almost 7 percent.
We got growth the following three months for 3.2 percent.
And the trend continues, now 4.9 percent.
And remember, that's in the context of China, the world's second biggest economy, being the driver of global growth as well.
Certainly, before the COVID-19 outbreak, growth here in China was helping global growth by around about 20 percent.
So it's good news for China and on the face of it, good news for the rest of the world.
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