Overall, China's economy expanded at a rate of 11.1 percent on year-on-year basis during the first half of 2010.
China grew by 9.7 per cent in the first quarter of this calendar year while inflation sped to its 32-month high of 5.4 per cent, according to the data released by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
China's economy picked up pace notching up 7.4 per cent year on year growth in the first half of 2014, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday.
The government has set seven per cent as the GDP target for this year.
China's GDP growth slowed in the second quarter this year to 7.5 per cent, official data showed on Monday, as the Chinese leadership faced fresh challenges to stimulate and revamp the world's second-biggest economy.