Tianjin GDP growth up in first three quarters

China's northern port city of Tianjin saw year-on-year gross domestic product growth of 4.6 percent during the first three quarters of the year, sustaining a momentum to reverse the recent downward glide of its GDP.

The city's GDP saw a stunning drop in growth to 3.6 percent in late 2017 from 9 percent expansion in 2016.

The GDP figure has since seen a slow climb from the second quarter of last year and touched 1.5 trillion yuan ($212.3 billion) during the third quarter of 2019.