China to publish quarterly GDP growth reports

    By IANS,

    Beijing : China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday that it will publish the quarterly GDP growth reports starting April.NBS will also release the month-on-month growth of the industrial value-added, fixed-asset investment and retail sales, Xinhua reported.

    China used to publish the macro-economic data on a yearly basis, which led to complaints that this did not reflect the short-term changes.