China's 2025 GDP grows 5.0% to fulfill annual target

BEIJING - China's economy in 2025 grew a real 5.0 percent from a year earlier, government data showed Monday, fulfilling the country's annual growth target aided by measures to boost consumer spending implemented amid a prolonged property sector crisis.

The rate of growth in gross domestic product in the world's second-largest economy remained unchanged from the previous year. In the October-December period, China's GDP increased 4.5 percent on year, down from 4.8 percent in the July-September quarter.