China 2013 GDP revised up, won’t affect 2014 growth

Workers walk back to a construction site after their lunch break in Beijing. The National Bureau of Statistics has revised up the estimated size of China's economy for 2013 by 3.4% to 58.8 trillion yuan (US$9.5tril) - AFP Photo.

BEIJING: China has revised up the estimated size of its economy for 2013 by 3.4% to 58.8 trillion yuan (US$9.5tril), the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday, but said the revision would not affect economic growth this year.

That marks an increase of 1.9 trillion yuan, or US$305bil, in the size of the Chinese economy, just slightly below the entire gross domestic product of Malaysia during the same period, according to World Bank statistics.