India, May 17 -- China's industrial growth accelerated in April driven by robust exports but softening growth in retail sales and fixed asset investment reflects an uneven economic recovery necessitating more efforts from the part of the government to achieve the official growth target.
Industrial production registered an annual increase of 6.7 percent after rising 4.5 percent in March, the National Bureau of Statistics reported Friday. This was also better than the expected growth of 5.5 percent.
By contrast, retail sales growth slowed to 2.3 percent from 3.1 percent a month ago and also remained weaker than the 3.8 percent expected rise.
During January to April, fixed asset investment expanded at a slower pace of 4.2 percent from the p...