"Economic growth may have slowed to 9.1 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, Bank of China Ltd. estimates, compared with a 9.7 percent gain in January-through-March.
The government needs to sustain the expansion to create millions of jobs for workers migrating to cities from the countryside and to limit the risk of social instability. In May, industrial output growth slowed for a third straight month and passenger-car sales fell for the first time in more than two years. M2, the broadest measure of money supply, rose the least in almost three years."
