Economic Index of Major Chinese Regions: GuangdongThe gross domestic product (GDP) of south China's Guangdong Province amounted to 950.6 billion yuan last year, representing a growth rate of 10.5 percent over the previous year.The growth has resumed the normal pace in the years before the attack of Asia's financial crisis which occurred in 1997. The annual growth rate of the province's agriculture, industry and the tertiary industry registered 2.5 percent, 11.9 percent and 10.6 percent, respectively. This is one of Xinhua's dispatches on major economic indicators of ten major Chinese regions. The ten regions are the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, Henan, Liaoning, and the municipalities of Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and Chongqing. These provinces and municipalities make up the bulk of the Chinese economy. |
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