BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 24.6619 trillion yuan (3.43 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2007, up 11.4 percent year on year, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Thursday.
The growth rate was 0.3 percentage points higher than the 2006 level revised at 11.1 percent.
It was the fifth consecutive year in which the nation's GDP grew at a pace of more than 10 percent, NBS head Xie Fuzhan told a press conference held here.
The growth was also a record high over the past 13 years, observers said.
The growth rate was 11.1 percent in the first quarter, 11.9 percent in the second quarter, 11.5 percent in the third quarter and 11.2 percent in the fourth.
Last year, the primary sector realized 2.89 trillion yuan in added value, up 3.7 percent, the secondary sector, 12.14 trillion yuan, up 13.4 percent, and the tertiary sector, 9.63 trillion yuan, up 11.4 percent.
The growth rate for the primary sector was 1.3 percentage points slower, while the paces for the secondary and tertiary sectors were 0.4 percentage points and 0.6 percentage points higher respectively.
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