China's economy grows 8.1% in 2021, but outlook becomes gloomier

China's economy grew 8.1 percent in 2021 from a year earlier with exports recuperating from the coronavirus shock, registering the sharpest expansion in 10 years, government data showed Monday, but the future of the nation's domestic demand is not necessarily bright.The pace of economic growth was much faster than the 2.2 percent expansion in 2020, underscoring that consumer and corporate confidence has been recovering in the Asian country, which has effectively brought the virus under control.In the October-December period of 2021 alone, however, the world's second-biggest economy edged up…READ FULL ARTICLE