{"id":175520,"date":"2026-08-17T03:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=175520"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:05:43","slug":"govt-raises-full-year-gdp-growth-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=175520","title":{"rendered":"Govt raises full-year GDP growth forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1866187_1_M_20260814175449.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The government on Friday raised Hong Kong&#8217;s economic growth forecast for 2026 to 3.5 percent to 4.5 percent, thanks to a strong first half.<\/p>\n<p>The economy was earlier projected to grow by 2.5 to 3.5 percent year on year.<\/p>\n<p>The upward revision came after the city posted a 5.1 percent growth in the January-to-June period&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1866187-20260814.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Friday raised Hong Kong&#8217;s econo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}