• China’s GDP growth accelerated to 7.8 pct in the third quarter, up from 7.5 pct in the second quarter. • Growth in the first nine months stood at 7.7 percent. • According to the NBS data, the GDP totaled 38.68 trillion yuan in the first nine months. Photo taken on Oct. 14, 2013 shows the container terminal in Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone in east China’s Shanghai municipality. China’s gross domestic product (GDP) totaled 38.7 trillion yuan (6.25 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first three quarters of 2013, with the growth at 7.8 percent in the third quarter of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Friday. (Xinhua/Lai Xinlin) BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) — China’s gross domestic product growth accelerated to 7.8 percent in the third quarter, up from 7.5 percent in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Friday. Growth in […]