Investment accounted for 92.3 percent of Gross Domestic Product of China (GDP) in 2009, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday.
GDP growth from 8.7 percent in recent years have contributed to increased investment by 8 percentage points, said in a statement on the website of the NBS.
Consumption contributed 4.6 percentage points or 52.5 percent of GDP last year, while net exports, said the GDP growth increased by 3.9 percentage points, or 44.8 percent, the statement said.
China Investments in fixed assets totaled 22.48 trillion yuan (3.3 trillion U.S. dollars U.S.) in 2009, an increase of 30.1 percent over the previous year, retail sales in 2009 rose 16.9 percent in the previous year to hit 12.53 trillion yuan.
The total foreign trade in 2009 fell to 2.21 trillion U.S. dollars, up 13.9 percent from the previous year, the trade surplus fell 34.2 percent to 196.1 billion U.S. dollars, according to NBS.
In 2007, investment contributed 4.3 percentage points to GDP growth, and the components of consumption and net exports of 4.4 and 2.7 percentage points, according to NBS.
The NBS did not provide statistics for the year 2008, when GDP growth in 2008 was revised last month.
Investment, consumption and net exports are three main factors evaluated when the GDP. China's GDP was 33.53 trillion yuan (4.91 trillion U.S. dollars U.S.) in 2009.
