Slowing economic growth and rising unemployment in Hong Kong may stoke more unrest in the city, which is grappling with a debate over how to pick its next leader in 2017. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg China may have recorded its worst annual growth rate in nearly a quarter of a century but the country’s leadership does not appear too worried. “The national economy has been running steadily under the ‘new normal’ , showing good momentum of stable growth, optimised structure, enhanced quality and improved livelihoods,” Ma Jiantang, head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics, said on Tuesday as he revealed the economy had grown 7.4 per cent last year, the slowest pace since 1990. More On this story On this topic IN Chinese Economy The main reason for the nonchalance is […]