China's economy grew 9.9 percent year on year in the first three quarters of this year, official figures showed on Thursday.

The growth rate was 2.3 percentage points lower than the same period of last year, or 0.5 percentage points lower than the first quarter of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.

The consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, rose 4.6 percent in September over the same period last year.

(China Daily October 20, 2008)