A woman cleans an air-vent next to a poster of Nicole Kidman advertising European-made watches at a shopping centre in the financial district of Beijing October 22, 2009. China's annual gross domestic product growth accelerated in the third quarter to 8.9 percent from 7.9 percent in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday. Economists had forecast third-quarter growth of 8.9 percent.
REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA SOCIETY BUSINESS)