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In 2010, China's annual level of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) reached a record US$106 billion. [2] As of 2013, China is the world's second-largest economy , with an estimated nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of US$8.25 trillion and a total international trade value of US$3.64 trillion.
Yuan Shikai dollars are relatively inexpensive in comparison to other Chinese silver coins due to their very large mintage, leading them to be popular with coin collectors. [34] The coins are nicknamed "fatman dollars" by collectors, from a mistranslation of their Chinese nickname, "big head dollars" ( 袁大头 ; Yuán dàtóu ). [ 35 ]
List of 31 provincial-level administrative divisions in mainland China by Nominal GDP in 2023 (billions of GDP) [1] Average exchange rate in 2023: CNY 7.0467 per USD [2] (PPP no longer included in the table for frequent changes in its index)
Since the Chinese economic reforms of 1978, China has become the world's biggest exporter, second largest economy and biggest manufacturer in the world. [4] [5] For most of its early history, the renminbi was pegged to the U.S. dollar at ¥2.46 per USD. During the 1970s it was revalued, until it reached ¥1.50 per USD in 1980.
The renminbi is held in a floating exchange-rate system managed primarily against the US dollar. On 21 July 2005, China revalued its currency by 2.1% against the US dollar and, since then has moved to an exchange rate system that references a basket of currencies and has allowed the renminbi to fluctuate at a daily rate of up to half a percent.
In his 1995 book Economics and World History, economic historian Paul Bairoch gave the following estimates in terms of 1960 US dollars, for GNP from 1750 to 1990, comparing what are today the Third World (Asia, Africa, Latin America) and the First World (Western Europe, Northern America, Japan) [3]
The loonie was trading 0.1% higher at 1.4135 to the U.S. dollar, or 70.75 U.S. cents. Like Canada, Australia and New Zealand are major commodity producers, so their currencies tend to be sensitive ...
From 1979 until 2010, China's average annual GDP growth was 9.91%, reaching a historical high of 15.2% in 1984 and a record low of 3.8% in 1990. Based on the current price, the country's average annual GDP growth in these 32 years was 15.8%, reaching an historical high of 36.41% in 1994 and a record low of 6.25% in 1999.