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CHINA PRESS: China's gross domestic production growth could reach 6.4% or even

higher in the next several years, with increasing domestic demand important for

both domestic and world growth, Economic Information Daily, a newspaper under

the official Xinhua News Agency, said in a commentary Wednesday. An important

development that is underappreciated is that the Chinese import growth rate has

been higher than the export growth rate for 15 months, meaning China has

replaced developed economics as the main pillar for global trade, the newspaper

said. China has also become the main force for global economic growth - China's

annualized average contribution rate to world growth from 2012-2016 was 30.2%,

compared with 17.8% for the U.S., 5.3% for Europe, and 3.8% for Japan. (Economic

Information Daily)