Article Photos: China's economic slowdown painful despite stimulus



In this photo taken Wednesday, July 11, 2012, a woman waits for customers outside a laundromat opened late at night in Beijing, China. From shopkeepers to shipbuilders, China’s deepest slowdown since the 2008 global crisis is inflicting more pain in some areas than still-robust headline growth of about 8 percent might suggest. State industry is getting infusions of government cash but private sector companies are struggling, cutting jobs and scrambling for customers.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 11, 2012, a woman waits for customers outside a laundromat opened late at night in Beijing, China. From shopkeepers to shipbuilders, China’s deepest slowdown since the 2008 global crisis is inflicting more pain in some areas than still-robust headline growth of about 8 percent might suggest. State industry is getting infusions of government cash but private sector companies are struggling, cutting jobs and scrambling for customers.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)