China GDP Guide: How the Data Is Sliced and What's New This Time

  • Statistics bureau is aiming for better way to capture services
  • Upgraded methodology to comply with IMF standards will be used

A worker watches bottles of a milk drink on a production line in Hangzhou, China.

Photographer: Feng Li/Getty Images
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Just 19 days after the fourth quarter ended, China will tell the world how its economy performed -- almost a month before Japan, and two months before tiny New Zealand.

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