China's GDP grows 11.9% in Q1

10:34, April 15, 2010

China's economy expanded 11.9 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2010 to 8.06 trillion yuan (1.19 trillion U.S. dollars), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.

The growth rate is 5.7 percentage points higher than the same period last year.

Source: Xinhua