China’s National Bureau of Statistics has released fresh economic figures for this year’s first quarter. GDP grew by 8.1 percent year-on-year in Q1, slowing from 8.9 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, this marks the fifth consecutive quarter of GDP slowing. Industrial output expanding 11.6 percent year-on-year. In March alone, the industrial output was up 11.9 percent from a year earlier.