在2017年年化数据方面，媒体关注的焦点主要集中在6.9%的实际（剔除通胀因素后）GDP增长，这意味着了几年来的首次提速，甚至高于是政府6.5％的软指标。
As for the annualized 2017 data, most of the media focus has been on China’s reported real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth, which, at 6.9%, represents the first acceleration in a couple of years and an improvement even on the government’s soft target rate of 6.5%.