BEIJING: China’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 7.0 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, official data showed on Wednesday, beating expectations as months of central bank policy stimulus helped put a floor under the world’s second-largest economy.

The gross domestic product figure announced by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) matched the 7.0 percent expansion in the first three months of this year, and exceeded the median forecast of 6.9 percent in an Agence France-Presse survey of 14 economists.

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