Sixty percent of economists said China's economy is showing signs of overheating, according to a survey published by the Caijing Magazine on Tuesday.

The survey, conducted by the China Economic Monitoring Center of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), asked 76 Chinese economists for their opinions on the performance of the economy in the second quarter.

Fifty-six percent of the economists said China's economy is showing signs of overheating. That's up from the survey conducted at the end of the first quarter when only 15 percent thought the economy was overheating.

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