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A driver repairs the wheel of his pedicab while awaiting his customer base of mostly tourists in Beijing on October 19, 2008. China's economic growth slowed to 9.9 percent in the first three quarters of the year, the government said on October 20, 2008, adding that the global slowdown was starting to have an impact. The third quarter figure marked a weakening from 10.4 percent in the first half of 2008, and 12.2 percent in the first three quarters of 2007, according to earlier data published by the bureau. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)
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