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China's GDP grows 8.7% in 2009

CHINA'S economy expanded 8.7 percent in 2009 from a year earlier, indicating that China has achieved its full-year growth target of 8 percent for 2009, which the government believes is essential to generate more jobs for the country's 1.3 billion population.

The gross domestic product (GDP) reached 33.54 trillion yuan (US$4.91 trillion) in 2009, Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), told a press conference today.




 

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