BEIJING (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th April, 2019) China's economy expanded by 6.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on Wednesday.
"According to preliminary estimates, in the first quarter of 2019, China's GDP growth year-on-year amounted to 21.34 trillion Yuan [$3.2 billion], year-on-year growth [stood] at 6.4 percent," the statement read.
China has set an economic growth target of about 6-6.5 percent for 2019.
Last year, China's economy grew by 6.6 percent, the lowest pace since 1990s.