From Reuters, via The Financial Times:
China’s economy grew 9.8 per cent in 2005, a vice minister was quoted as saying on Sunday, revising up an earlier estimate and again confounding forecasts that the country’s racing output growth had begun to slow at last.
The higher growth rate, which may not be the final official figure, builds on the latest estimates of China’s 2004 Gross Domestic Product, which the statistics office hoisted by one sixth last month.