This is within our expectation, only a matter of 0.1 percent more or less. Judging from economic statistics from previous months, China's economy has been stable all along.

I said in June and July that we can definitely accomplish a GDP of 7.5 percent, so the result now - 7.7 percent – is very reasonable.

China's economy this year will see better growth than last year. My GDP forecast for 2014 will be around 8 percent.

-- He Keng, vice chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress; Economist; Dean of Central University of Finance and Economics' School of Statistics