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2008 GDP figure revised to $4.6t

By Si Tingting (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-25 11:03
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China's GDP was revised to be 31.4045 trillion yuan ($4.6 trillion) in 2008, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said today.

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The latest revised figure is 1.3375 trillion yuan ($196 billion) more than the number released in February. The adjustment was the result of new data from a just-concluded national economic census.

The NBS also said that in 2008, China's energy consumption per unit of GDP dropped by 5.2 percent year-on-year and is now 12.45 percent lower than the 2005 level. That is slightly more than the previous estimate from February of 2009, which was 4.59 percent.
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