Beijing's digital economy growth outpaces GDP in H1

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Beijing Municipality's digital economy continued to grow rapidly in the first half of this year (H1), achieving an added value growth of 7.8 percent year on year. This growth rate is 2.4 percentage points higher than the city's GDP growth rate during the same period.

The sector contributed over 60 percent to the city's economic growth, and the added values in the information service a