Statistics

China's GDP grows 10.6% in first three quarters

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-10-21 10:16

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China's GDP grew 10.6 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of this year to 26.87 trillion yuan ($4.04 trillion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday.

The growth was 2.5 percentage points higher compared with the same period last year.

China's economy increased 9.6 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, lower than the 11.9-percent growth in the first and 10.3-percent growth in the second.