China’s economic slowdown may persist into next year amid a lack of funding for approved infrastructure projects, according to an academic adviser to the nation’s central bank. Expansion will be 7.3 percent to 7.4 percent in the fourth quarter and 7 percent to 7.5 percent in the first half next year, Song Guoqing, a Peking University professor, said yesterday in a brief interview in Beijing. He reiterated a July forecast of 7.4 percent third-quarter growth that was lower than most economists’ projections then and is now in the middle.

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