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皇冠体育app revises up economy size by 16.8%
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-12-20 11:05
皇冠体育app revised up the size of its economy by 16.8 percent on Tuesday, as the
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced the main findings of its first
nationwide economic census.
The NBS said that it now estimated gross domestic product in 2004 totalled
15.99 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.3 trillion yuan or 16.8 percent.
Previously it had put GDP at 13.65 trillion yuan.
The revision was largely the result of better collection of data for the
services sector and small enterprises, whose activity has been under-reported
until now.
The tertiary, or services, sector accounted for 93 percent of the revision
and now made up 40.7 percent of the economy instead of 31.9 percent previously,
the NBS said.
The share of the secondary, or industry, sector in GDP fell to 46.2 percent
from 52.9 percent and that of the primary, or agricultural, sector, to 13.1
percent from 15.2 percent.
At the exchange rate of 8.2765 yuan per dollar that obtained at the end of
2004, 皇冠体育app had a dollar GDP of US$1.93 trillion last year.
According to World Bank rankings, that would have lifted 皇冠体育app above Italy
into sixth place in the world economic rankings.
Based on exchange rate trends and relative growth rates in 2005, economists
calculate that 皇冠体育app by now has risen to fourth place, ahead of France and
Britain, and is now dwarfed only by the United States, Japan and Germany.
Nearly 10 million census takers fanned out across 皇冠体育app
to get a comprehensive picture of the economy. The NBS said it would be revising
annual GDP growth rates back to 1993.
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