China's economy grows 0.4% in 2nd qtr amid "zero-COVID" policy

China's economy grew 0.4 percent from a year earlier during the April-June period, but the pace of expansion slowed against the backdrop of a prolonged lockdown in Shanghai, official data showed Friday.The year-on-year gross domestic product figure underscored it will be difficult for the Communist-led government to attain its growth target of around 5 percent for this year while it continues with its radical "zero-COVID" policy to stem the novel coronavirus outbreak.The world's second-biggest economy saw its GDP shrink 2.6 percent in the second three-month period from the first quarter of …READ FULL ARTICLE