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China adjusts GDP revision, output equivalent to Malaysian economy
Published: December 19, 2014 10:50 AM
BEIJING, Dec 19 — China revised the size of the economy by US$308.8 billion (RM1.073 trillion), adding almost the entire output of Malaysia.
The gross domestic product of the world’s second-largest economy was 58.8 trillion yuan in 2013, according to the results of a nationwide economic census announced today. That’s 3.4 per cent larger than the previously reported figure. Malaysia’s 2013 GDP was US$312 billion.
The size of the revision was smaller than the last time China performed the calculation, in 2008, reflecting more accurate counting of a rapidly expanding services industry. The larger GDP makes China’s debt look smaller by comparison, which may give policy makers more room to maneuver as they seek ways to bolster growth set to be the lowest since 1990 this year.
“China is using an upgraded methodology and the results should be taken seriously,” Daniel Rosen and Beibei Bao at Rhodium Group wrote in a research note last week.
The economic census is conducted about every five years to gather information on the manufacturing and services industries. Over 10 million businesses and about 60 million enterprises were visited early this year by about 3 million census takers, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
The past two censuses led to a 16.8 per cent boost to 2004 GDP size and a 4.4 per cent increase in 2008. Ma Jiantang, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics, had said Dec. 16 that China would revise 2013 GDP upward by “a bit more” than 3 per cent.’’
A Bloomberg survey of 12 economists showed a median forecast of 1 per cent to 3 per cent for the revision to 2013 GDP. — Bloomberg
Published: December 19, 2014 10:50 AM
BEIJING, Dec 19 — China revised the size of the economy by US$308.8 billion (RM1.073 trillion), adding almost the entire output of Malaysia.
The gross domestic product of the world’s second-largest economy was 58.8 trillion yuan in 2013, according to the results of a nationwide economic census announced today. That’s 3.4 per cent larger than the previously reported figure. Malaysia’s 2013 GDP was US$312 billion.
The size of the revision was smaller than the last time China performed the calculation, in 2008, reflecting more accurate counting of a rapidly expanding services industry. The larger GDP makes China’s debt look smaller by comparison, which may give policy makers more room to maneuver as they seek ways to bolster growth set to be the lowest since 1990 this year.
“China is using an upgraded methodology and the results should be taken seriously,” Daniel Rosen and Beibei Bao at Rhodium Group wrote in a research note last week.
The economic census is conducted about every five years to gather information on the manufacturing and services industries. Over 10 million businesses and about 60 million enterprises were visited early this year by about 3 million census takers, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
The past two censuses led to a 16.8 per cent boost to 2004 GDP size and a 4.4 per cent increase in 2008. Ma Jiantang, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics, had said Dec. 16 that China would revise 2013 GDP upward by “a bit more” than 3 per cent.’’
A Bloomberg survey of 12 economists showed a median forecast of 1 per cent to 3 per cent for the revision to 2013 GDP. — Bloomberg