Provinces register faster GDP growth

Figures suggest looming recovery as stimulus measures start to take effect

The latest GDP figures from the eastern provinces suggest China's economic growth decline might have come to an end and started to rebound, analyst said.

Guangdong province, China's largest economic powerhouse, posted a 7.9 percent year-on-year growth in the first three quarters of this year. The growth rate, though lower than last year's, was half a percentage point higher than it was in the first half of the year.