Ending a long and severe long recession, Hong Kong's economy grew at the fastest pace in more than a decade in the first quarter of 2021, underpinned by robust exports, advance estimate from the Census and Statistics Department showed on Monday.
GDP grew 7.8 percent from a year earlier, in contrast to the decrease of 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter. This was the first growth since the second quarter of 2019 and the biggest expansion since the first quarter of 2010.
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