A sales assistant assists a customer looking at a row of new flush toilets in a homewares department store located in central Beijing October 23, 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 BUSINESS)