GDP reach to 47.1564 trillion RMB (=7.5 trillion USD at current market price or 7.31 trillion USD at year-average price, grown from 5..88 trillion USD last year, translated to 25%+ nominial annual growth rate).


Produced 680 million tonnes steel (roughly equal to the combination of the rest world)
Produced 19.2 millioin cars and trucks (world highest)
Produced 19.09 million square meters's properties (more than the combination of the rest world)
Produced 20.7 trillion tonnes cement (50% more than the combination of the rest world)
Produced 15.7 million tonnes chemics (world highest)
Generated 406.7G kwh electricity (again, world highest)

Retail sales reach 18.1 trillion RMB(2.9 trillion USD, again, world highest), being the largest market for virtually every catergroy of commodity and commusable goods.

http://news.hexun.com/2012-01-17/137341068.html

And China now already become the world largest patents applied according BBC news.

So judging by this trend the US will be extremely luck to hold the largest economy title by 2016, so now everyone and their dogs already know China will be the next dominating superpower in the world, actually without the vastly under-valued currency, China's economy would have been far far larger than that of the US by now, as indicated by all industry output measures, commsuption measures and retail sales.

Just like I always pointed out, an all-out arms race now will help China's economy and bankrupted the USA, shot two birds with 1 stone.

Thats why the americans trying their best to avoid the arms race, because even they know they would fall short in this one.

China and USA now is best compared like the USA before WW2(current China) and some old europe state around the same era (current USA): China has a much stronger economy base now and the USA invested far large in military whilst their debt-ridden economy is about to collapse soon.

With a continental size of China.

Achieving world no.1 is not a hard thing, we also no.1 polluter as well.

But achieving world highest standard of living, that is the real deal.

Very interesting read.
Impressive stuff that China has accomplished over the last couple of years. If you are ever searching for more statistics on China I would check out that website. I always research there for my articles or fact checking.
Keep up the nice posts!

wow. that's like half of US gdp. good job! anyway china should still keep a low profile and adapt itself for problem-solving: for surely we're going to see lot of problems ahead.