China revises up 2008 economic growth
China announced on Friday that the country's economy grew by 9.6 percent in 2008, up from a previously announced figure of nine percent.The latest national economic census found the economy was worth 31.4 trillion yuan in 2008, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Ma Jiantang said at a briefing, or around 4.6 billion dollars based on the current exchange rate.That meant growth was 0.6 percentage points higher than the nine percent announced in January, Peng Zhilong, director-general of the NBS' department of national accounts, said at the same news conference.
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