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Louis Kuijs, chief China economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland, based in Hong Kong.

Decline in China's fixed asset investment will hit German exporters

Lack of action to stem China's real estate slump indicates policymakers are now willing to let growth slow.

Chinese government still undecided about future growth targets.

Michael Power, global strategist at Investec Asset Management, based in Cape Town.

The Q3 data demonstrates China is managing to engineer a soft landing.

Slowing China growth will not be so damaging to Africa since the continent has a new dynamism, not wholly reliant on commodities demand.

Europe is the main threat to the global economy and not China growth.

Oliver Barron

, head of the Beijing research office of London-based investment bank NSBO.

China's policymakers have more room to allow the economy to slow because employment levels are stable.

Slowing China growth could impact the European economy, particularly the demand for German cars.

Growth is unlikely to rebound in the fourth quarter because of the weak real estate market.

Zhu Ning

, deputy director and professor of finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Q3 GDP means China is not on target to achieve 2014's 7.5 percent target.

Missing target may not be down to reforms taking place but a failure of recent belated stimulus measures.

Still too early to say there has been a mood swing in the mentality of policymakers about growth.

Ruchir Sharma

, head of global macro and emerging markets at investment bank Morgan Stanley, based in New York.

It is now when China, and not the US, sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.

A fall of 1 percent in China growth now knocks 0.5 percent off global growth.

China's slowdown sharpening Europe's already polarized debate about how to revive growth.

Julian Evans-Pritchard

, China economist at macroeconomics consultancy Capital Economics, based in Singapore.

Q3 GDP shows China's growth is resilient despite weak August data.

China's reforms are beginning to have an effect and they will cause growth to slow.

Indications are that China will soon move to a flexible target for growth.

Goolam Ballin

, chief economist and global head of research for Standard Bank Group, based in Johannesburg

If China GDP growth fell to 6 percent it could trigger a global commodities recession.

Africa's resource economies will be at the sharp end of slowing China growth.

China's graduation to a slower growth economy will not be an elegant transition.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 10/31/2014 page15)