 You're listening to Morning Edition on Maine Public Radio. Good morning. We'll check out the weather forecast for you in four minutes. Morning Edition time, 846. It's Morning Edition from NPR News. I'm Sasha Pfeiffer. And I'm Steve Inskeep. When an NPR team visited China last spring, people spoke with us with gloom about the economy. Today, some data confirmed what they were feeling. The government reports much lower than expected GDP growth in the second quarter, also very weak retail sales.