BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer
price index, a key inflation indicator, rose by 4.1 percent in the first nine
months over the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
announced on Thursday.
The CPI eased slightly to 6.2 percent in September after
surging to an 11-year monthly high of 6.5 percent in August. Despite the slight
drop in September, the CPI for the first nine months still climbed 0.2
percentage points from 3.9 percent for January to August.
Food prices jumped by 10.6 in the first nine months, said
the bureau.
BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's GDP was up
11.5 percent in the first nine months from the corresponding period last year,
said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) here on Thursday.
GDP rose by 11.5 percent in the third quarter, compared
with 11.9 percent in the second quarter and 11.1 percent in the first quarter.
China's GDP reached 16.6 trillion yuan in the first three
quarters, with growth rate 0.7 percentage points higher than the same period of
2006.
BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's fixed
assets investment rose to 9,152.9 billion yuan (1,220.4 billion U.S. dollars) in
the first nine months, up 25.7 percent from the same period last year, the
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Thursday.
The increase was 1.6 percentage points lower than the
growth rate in the same period last year despite investment in fixed assets
running at a high level, said NBS spokesman Li Xiaochao.
Investment in urban areas reached 7,824.7 billion yuan, up
by 26.4 percent (24.8 percent in September), a drop of 1.8 percentage points
from the first three quarters of 2006; investment in rural areas was 1,328.2
billion yuan, up by 21.2 percent.
