China’s GDP expands 5.4 pct year on year in Q1
Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5.4 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2025, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Wednesday.
The country’s GDP reached 31.8758 trillion yuan (about 4.42 trillion U.S. dollars) during this period, the NBS data showed.
On a quarterly basis, the economy increased 1.2 percent in the first three months.
China’s GDP grew 5 percent year on year last year and the country has targeted its full-year economic growth at around 5 percent for 2025.
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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.…
