Beijing's GDP up 5.5 pct in H1

BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Beijing's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 5.5 percent year on year in the first half of 2023, 2.4 percentage points higher than the growth rate in the first quarter, the city's statistics authorities said Wednesday.

Its GDP reached 2.06 trillion yuan (about 288.2 billion U.S. dollars), according to Zhu Yannan, deputy chief of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics.

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