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1. Various of commercial outlets, advertised sales and customers browsing 2. Wide of officials arriving at State Council Press Conference 3. Cutaway press 4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Ma Jiantang, Commissioner, China National Bureau of Statistics: "According to the preliminary estimation, the gross domestic product (GDP) of China was 47,156.4 billion yuan in 2011. This is a year-on-year increase of 9.2 percent at comparable prices." 5. Cutaway press 6. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Ma Jiantang, Commissioner, China National Bureau of Statistics: "The 4th quarter growth was up 8.9 percent. On a quarterly basis the fourth quarter growth of gross domestic product went up 2.0 percent." 7. Wide of press hall 8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Ma Jiantang, Commissioner, China National Bureau of Statistics: "The portion of urban population to rural population rose to 51.27 percent, which for the first time put the urban population over 50 percent. So that is a significant milestone for our planning. This was 1.32 percentage points higher than that of the previous year." 9. Various of grocery stores and shopping STORYLINE: China's economic growth slowed in the final quarter of 2011 to its lowest rate in two and a half years as U.S. and European demand plunged and Beijing fought inflation. The world's second-largest economy grew by 8.9 percent in the three months ending in December, data showed on Tuesday. It was the slowest expansion since the second quarter of 2009, when the economy grew 7.9 percent. China appears on track to avoid the "hard landing" of an abrupt slowdown but needs to do more to reduce reliance on exports and investment-driven growth by boosting consumer spending, analysts said. The slowdown was in line with government plans to cool China's overheated economy, Ma said. He said the "ideal situation" would be to keep growth between 8.5 and 9 percent and to keep inflation low. Hit by an abrupt plunge in Western consumer demand, regulators reversed course in late 2011 and tried to prop up growth by promising more bank lending to help struggling exporters and avert job losses and the threat of unrest. Also in 2011, China's urban population exceeded the number of rural dwellers for the first time, rising to 51.3 percent of the nation's 1.3 billion people, the National Bureau of Statistics announced. Overall, slower Chinese growth could have global repercussions if its cuts demand for oil, iron ore, industrial components and other imports and hurts suppliers such as Australia, Brazil and Southeast Asia. For the full year, the economy grew 9.2 percent, down from 2010's blistering 10.3 percent after communist leaders repeatedly hiked interest rates and tightened investment curbs to prevent overheating and inflation. In a positive sign, growth in retail sales rebounded to 18.1 percent in December from November's 17.1 percent. Also in December, growth in factory output edged up to 12.8 percent from November's 12.4 percent. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c370502f839ef2069e5dbf06153dcf5b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork