Trade's share in economic growth drops
By Xin Zhiming | China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-21 07:45
A truck passes by lines of piled up containers at Yangshan Port in Shanghai. China's exports slowed in the third quarter of the year because the global financial crisis cut consumption worldwide. Xiao Yang |
The contribution of trade to China's economic growth fell to 12.5 percent in the first nine months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said yesterday.
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