The economically booming Shandong Province in China's east realized 1.02 trillion yuan (127.5 billion US dollars) in gross domestic product in the first half of this year, a year-on-year growth of 15.3 percent.

It has been the first time that Shandong's GDP, which ranked the second place in China only after Guangdong Province in the south, exceeded the 1-trillion-yuan mark in a six-month period.

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