faster than expected at the start of this year, by 5.3%, boosted by its firm focus on manufacturing after a prolonged slump in its badly hit property market. the country has invested in making high end products like electric vehicles, solar panels and batteries, to be sold around the world. but now their domination in that market is causing tension with the west, amidst fears it ll become too reliant on cheaper chinese green solutions, and at home with the manufacturing workforce. our china correspondent laura bicker reports. ren wenbing is a lifelong factory worker who s helped forge china s rise. this is your home? everything he owns is behind this door. but as china s economy falters, the last firm he worked for closed without warning, leaving him without his redundancy pay, which will take years to earn back.