China’s factory output growth last month slowed from a jump in March, while retail sales missed analyst expectations, indicating more pressure on the recovery in consumption. Industrial production grew 9.8 percent from a year earlier, slower than the 14.1 percent surge in March, Chinese National Bureau of Statistics data showed yesterday, but matching a consensus forecast by analysts from a Reuters poll. Aluminum production rose 12.4 percent from March to a record monthly volume. China’s economy showed a steady improvement last month, but new problems are also emerging, bureau spokesman Fu Linghui (傅令輝) told a news briefing in Beijing. “The foundations for the domestic