China’s GDP expands 4.7 pct in H1

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 4.7 percent year on year in the first half of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday.

The world’s second-largest economy generated around 69.57 trillion yuan (about 10.25 trillion U.S. dollars) in output during the period, the data showed. In the second quarter, the country’s economy expanded 4.3 percent year on year.

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…