The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics or NBS, announced on July 2 that it has revised its estimate of China´s gross domestic product for 2009 to RMB 34.05 trillion, or a 9.1% growth year-on-year, from the preliminary figure of RMB 33.54 trillion and 8.7%, respectively, source reported.

    The new figure is an increase of RMB 515.4 billion or 0.4 percentage points from original calculation.

    The bureau said China´s primary industry value added was RMB 3.52 trillion, down RMB 25.1 billion from the preliminary data, with an unchanged growth rate of 4.2%.

    The value added of secondary industry was RMB 15.76 trillion, raised RMB 68.1 billion than preliminary data, representing a 9.9% increase from 9.5%. The tertiary industry value added for 2009 was raised RMB 472.4 billion to RMB 14.76 trillion, up 9.3% year-on-year, increased 0.4% comparing with the preliminary figure.

    The primary, secondary and tertiary industries account for 10.3%, 46.3% and 43.4% of the overall economy respectively, according to the statement made by the NBS.

    On January 21 NBS announced China´s GDP amounted to RMB 33.54 trillion in 2009, up 8.7% year on year.