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Argh. Pet peeve: badly worded economic statistics.

"The growth in China's industrial output slowed to 8.2 per cent in October, compared to 11.4 per cent a month earlier. "

That sounds like monthly growth rates. Obviously it cannot be, that number is too high. Perhaps it's annualised monthly growth, or perhaps it's annual growth. In actuality this is a 12 month growth rate - a 3.2pp fall in one month, excluding a large base-effect, means growth in October was negative, which should be been mentioned in the article too, but isn't.