Article: 3rd Ld: China's GDP up 6.1 pct in Q1 2009

3rd Ld: China's GDP up 6.1 pct in Q1 2009

BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) -- China's economy expanded by 6.1 percent year on year in the first quarter, official data showed Thursday.

The quarterly growth rate was the lowest in 10 years as the global financial crisis continued to affect the world's fastest- growing economy. It was 4.5 percentage points lower than the first quarter of 2008 and down 0.7 percentage points from the previous quarter.

Gross domestic product (GDP) reached 6.5745 trillion yuan (939 billion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter, Li Xiaochao, spokesman of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), told a press conference. POSITIVE SIGNS

Li said the government's stimulus ...

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