China Announces Growth Stats for the Year's
First Six Months
China's Statistics Bureau announced growth statistics
for the first six months of 2003. These are the first
figures announced following the SARS crisis in China.
Inner Mongolia led the country with 15.7 percent growth,
followed by Tianjin (13.7 percent) and Jiangsu province
(13 percent). Beijing came in last, in 23rd place, with
9.6 percent growth. Beijing was deeply affected by the
SARS crisis in March and April, with several hundred deaths,
and most retail outlets closed for several weeks. Beijing
scored poorly in other categories as well; Beijing's industrial
growth came in at 26th place.
Of China's other municipalities (major cities which report
directly to the central government in Beijing instead
of to provincial governments), Shanghai had 11.4 percent
growth and Chongqing had 11.1 percent growth.
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