BEIJING, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- China's GDP expanded 4.6 percent year-on-year to reach 107.11 trillion yuan ($16 trillion) in the first nine months, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. The freshly released figure landed well within the annual GDP growth target of around 4.5 percent to 5 percent for this year, showing that the world's second-largest economy continues to operate on the sound trajectory, and laying a solid foundation for achieving the full-year growth target, Chinese analysts said.