Dec 25
China has revised the growth rate of its gross domestic product (GDP) for 2008 to 9.6 percent from 9 percent, Xinhua reported, citing the National Bureau of Statistics. The new figure amounted to about 4.59 trillion U.S. dollars, at the exchange rate on December 31 of 2008. The revised volume for the agriculture sector was 3.37 trillion yuan, accounting for 10.7 percent of GDP, down from 3.4 trillion yuan.hat raised GDP for 2008 to 31.40 trillion yuan from the previous figure of 30.067 trillion yuan, NBS director Ma Jiantang told a press conference.
The figure for the industrial sector was put at 14.90 trillion yuan, accounting for 47.5 percent of GDP, was larger than the earlier figure of 14.6183 trillion yuan.
The service sector figure was 13.13 trillion yuan, accounting for 41.8 percent of GDP. It was up from 12.05 trillion yuan.
