Officially, GDP grew by over 4%; Dragonomics reckons it actually declined by 1.5%.

根据官方数据，GDP增长了4%以上；Dragonomics估计实际上GDP下降了1.5%。

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This signal, says Arthur Kroeber, an economist at Dragonomics, aresearch firm in Beijing, is more important than the exact amount of cash on offer.

来自龙州经讯，北京某研究机构的阿瑟‧克劳博说，这个信息比具体的救市金额更重要。

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If those 300m, who belong to what Dragonomics calls "consuming China", were a nation, they would live in an economy two-thirds the size of Germany's.

假如这3亿人——他们属于龙洲经讯所称的“消费的中国”(consuming China)——自成一个国家，该国的经济规模将相当于德国的三分之二。

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Overall, "there is some deceleration but it's not catastrophic, " said Rosealea Yao, an analyst at Dragonomics Research.

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Even these robust retail sales understate the strength of consumer spending, says Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics, a Beijing-based economic research firm.

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Overall, Dragonomics's Mr Kroeber thinks that GDP growth in the year to the first quarter of 2009 was not significantly overstated.

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