China 2014 growth revised down to 7.3 per cent

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China 2014 growth revised down to 7.3 per cent
A pedestrian walks past a Chinese yuan currency sign in Hong Kong.

Beijing - The revised GDP for 2014 came in at $10 tn, down 32.4 bn yuan from the preliminary calculation figure that put the annual rate at 7.4 per cent,

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Published: Mon 7 Sep 2015, 8:06 AM

Last updated: Mon 7 Sep 2015, 10:11 AM

China's statistics authority on Monday lowered the country's growth rate for 2014 to 7.3 per cent based on its preliminary verification.
The revised gross domestic product (GDP) for 2014 came in at $10 tn, down 32.4 bn yuan from the preliminary calculation figure that put the annual rate at 7.4 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement.
Primary industries accounted for 9.2 per cent of the GDP structure, unchanged from the preliminary calculation, Xinhua news agency reported.
The secondary sector accounted for 42.7 per cent of GDP, up 0.1 percentage points from the preliminary calculation, while the tertiary sector accounted for 48.1 per cent, down 0.1 percentage point from the earlier statistics.
NBS calculates each year's GDP three times-the preliminary calculation, followed by the preliminary verification and then the final verification, which is released several months later.
Last year marked the weakest annual expansion for China in 24 years due to a housing slowdown, softening domestic demand and unsteady exports, and growth further slowed to seven per cent in the first half of 2015 as the country braces for a "new normal" period of slower growth but higher quality.
In an assuring message to the market, China's top economic planner on Monday said the world's second largest economy is stabilising and turning for the better, citing stabilising rail freight and a warming property market as proof for the improvement.
Since August, economic indicators such as power use, rail freight, home prices and transactions have all taken a favourable turn, showing economic operations stabilising amid fluctuations, according to a statement on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission.
A recent report by Fitch Ratings' on China's new normal said that "pessimism over China's short-term outlook is overdone and a growth pick-up in the second half is already in the pipeline."
Fitch, however, also expects more volatility around the new normal of slower growth, both in real economic activity and in financial markets.
 
 
 


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