Indicators may pose tough growth questions

China's economic growth rate look to have slipped in the first quarter to the slowest pace since the global recession of 2009, if analysts have called it right.

The nation's gross domestic product report for the three months through March to be released on Wednesday in Beijing will show growth slowed to 7 percent from a year earlier, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

For an under-the-hood look at how the world's second-largest economy is faring, keep an eye out for these nuts and bolts that are also scheduled for release on Wednesday: