October 23, 2009 12:00 am
• Last Updated: October 23, 2009 1:35 am
A vendor sorts vegetables at a market in Suining in southwest China's Sichuan province on Thursday. China's economy expanded more than 7 percent in the first nine months of the year and will certainly surpass the 2009 growth target of 8 percent, a top economic official said earlier this week.