摘要
China's gross domestic product(GDP)grew 9.9 percent year on year to RMB 20.163 trillion(US$2.96 trillion)in the first three quarters of this year,the Na- tional Bureau of Statistics(NBS)said on October 20. The growth rate was 2.3 percentage points lower than the same period of last year,or 0.5 percentage points lower than the first quarter of this year.