BEIJING—China’s economic growth is expected to slow to a near 30-year low of 6.2 percent this year and cool further to 5.9 percent in 2020, a Reuters poll showed, underlining the stiff challenge faced by Beijing even as it steps up stimulus amid a bruising Sino-U.S. trade war.
The median forecast for 2019 growth is near the lower end of the government’s target range of 6-6.5 percent, and would be the weakest expansion for the world’s second-biggest economy since 1990.
