Guangdong's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 14.1 percent in the first three quarters of 2006, down 0.3 percent from the first half of the year while up 0.3 percent from the same period of last year.

Fixed asset investment totaled 515.286 billion yuan in the first nine months, with a growth of 15.6 percent. The growth rate is 1.1 percent down from the same period of last year and 4.9 percent down from the first half year. This indicates Guangdong's measure in cooling down the overheated investment is taking effect.

The export volume in the first three quarters surged to 213.29 billion dollars, with a growth of 28.8 percent.

Retail sales of Guangdong totaled 669.662 billion yuan, up 15.8 percent in the first three quarters, and 0.9 percentage points up from the same period of last year.

Editor: Yan