China’s economy expanded at its slowest pace in six years in the first quarter this year, highlighting the challenge of finding new growth drivers amid a slowdown in the key pillars of construction and manufacturing. Gross domestic product grew 7 per cent in the first three months of 2015 compared with the same period a year earlier, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday — the weakest quarterly expansion since the depths of the global financial crisis in the first quarter of 2009. China’s economy grew […]