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China's GDP Grew By 6.4% Year-on-Year in 1st Quarter of 2019

BEIJING (Sputnik) - China's economy expanded by 6.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on Wednesday.
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"According to preliminary estimates, in the first quarter of 2019, China's GDP growth year-on-year amounted to 21.34 trillion yuan [$3.2 billion], year-on-year growth [stood] at 6.4 percent," the statement read.

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