China Raises ’05 Growth To 10.2%, a 10-Year High – J.R. WU

From The Wall Street Journal:

China revised upward the value of the country’s economic output and its economic growth for 2005, adding weight to Beijing’s recent warnings about economic imbalances.

Gross domestic product grew 10.2% last year from a year earlier, higher than the originally estimated rate of 9.9%, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

The value of GDP in 2005 was revised to 18.3085 trillion yuan ($2.3 trillion) from a preliminary figure of 18.2321 trillion yuan issued by the bureau in January.[Full Text and Subscribors Only]