China reports that its economic growth slowed in the final quarter of 2013 and appears set to cool even further.
China's National Bureau of Statistics also said Monday that the economy grew by 7.7 percent for all of last year, the same as in 2012, for its weakest performance since 1999.
Analysts say the economy slowed quite rapidly in the last quarter, with factory output, exports and investment all weaker than the previous quarter.
Officials said that a long-term accumulation of problems has yet to ease, and a mini-stimulus of government spending last year has faded.
Growth of the world's second-largest economy is still considerably stronger than the United States, Japan or Europe.