News conference on “Chinese Macroeconomic Analysis Report for the 1st Quarter of the Year” was held by Unirule Institute of Economics on April 19th, 2013. During the conference, Prof. Zhang Shuguang made a detail analysis of the first quarter of Chinese Macroeconomic.

It is pointed out that in first quarter, contrary to the expected, GDP grew by 9.5%, industrial added value increased by 9.5%, CPI rose by 2.4%, all of which were low than those of the same period last year and last quarter. But the growth decline provides a chance of economic adjustment and transition.