China 2013 property investment and sales quicken

BEIJING: Growth in real estate investment and property sales accelerated in China in 2013, a sign the booming property market has resisted Beijing's sustained efforts to cool it down.

Real estate investment, which accounted for 15 percent of China's gross domestic product in 2013, rose 19.8 last year from a year earlier, compared with 16.2 percent in 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.