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epa02404310 Workers carry the shoes outside a shoes wholesale market in Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province, 21 October 2010. China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 9.6 per cent in the third quarter from the same period last year and the consumer price index (CPI) rose by a 24-month high of 3.6 per cent in September from one year earlier which is China's main gauge of inflation while China's retail sales of consumer goods rose 18.3 per cent in the first three quarters year on year,according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on 21 October. EPA/WU HONG