Last Thursday China said they would start to report quarterly GDP numbers in 2010.
Now they released Q1 2009 today.
China’s Economy Expands at the Slowest Pace in Almost a Decade
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By Kevin Hamlin
April 16 (Bloomberg) -- China’s gross domestic product, battered by collapsing exports, grew at the slowest pace in almost ten years, probably marking the low point for the world’s third-biggest economy.
GDP expanded 6.1 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, after a 6.8 percent gain in the previous three months, the statistics bureau said in Beijing today. The figure compares with the 6.2 percent median estimate of 13 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
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