On April 16, China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that China’s GDP rose by 5.0 percent year on year in the January-March period of the current year, 0.5 percentage points faster than the year-on-year growth recorded in the October-December period last year, exceeding expectations and marking a solid start to 2026 for the Chinese economy.
Meanwhile, China’s GDP in the first three months increased by 1.3 percent compared to the fourth quarter last year, with the quarter-on-quarter rise 0.1 percentage point faster than that recorded in the October-December period last year.