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"Data released Friday by China's national statistics bureau showed that China's economy expanded 7.8% year on year in the third quarter of 2013, reversing a first half slowdown."

"China's growth for the first nine months of 2013 came it at 7.7%, above the government's target of 7.5% for the full year."

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