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GDP growth rate of 6.9% beats market expectations: NBS

China's GDP in the third quarter slightly beat expectation to grow 6.9 percentNational Bureau ofStatistics said on Monday.

The growth ratethe slowest since the first quarter of 2009, dragged the growth in the first ninemonths down to 6.9 percent from 7 percent in the first half.

Meanwhileindustrial output in September grew 5.7 percentwhile fixed-asset investmenta pillarof economic growthfurther falling to 10.3 percent in the first nine months from 10.9 percent in thefirst eight months of this yearaccording to NBS dataRetail sale growth gained to 10.9 percentfrom 10.8 percent in August.

The growth was particularly dragged down by real estate investmentwhich further slowed to 2.6percent in the first nine monthsfrom 12.5 percent recorded in the same period just a year ago.

Huang Yipingan economics professor with Peking Universityand a member of the central bankadvisory committeesaid downward pressure will persist in the remainder of this year and nextyearbecause the economy's traditional growth enginessuch as labor-intensive manufacturingand capital-intensive heavy industries are losing stream while new enginessuch as high value-added manufacturing and servicesare developing but is not big enough to fill in the slack.

"It will take quite a while to foster those industries that will drive the next round of medium-to-highgrowthso I think the downward pressure will be there for a while," he said. "Policy prop-up mightbring the growth up temporarily but that's not going to last."

Zhang Xiaoqianga former deputy-chairman of the National Development and ReformCommissionsaid policymakers don't have to be preoccupied with a 0.1 or 0.2 percentagepoints off the "7 percentof official GDP growth targetGDP is just one of many policy targets.Other important growth targets included employmenthousehold incomeenergy intensityall ofwhich are on a good track.

For examplereal household income in the first three quarters grew 7.7 percentaccording toNBSwell ahead of the GDP growth.

Tsinghua University's Center for China in the World Economypredicted in a Sunday report thatChina's growth will rebound to 6.9 percent from 6.8 percent expected this yearbacked by awarm-up in property market and the trickle-down effect of previously-approved infrastructureprojects.

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