China says will revise up size of economy in 2013 by around 3 percent

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will revise upwards the estimated size of its economy in 2013 by around 3 percent, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday as he introduced a new methodology that the country uses to calculates its gross domestic product. Ma Jiantang said China will release the revised figures for its GDP on Dec 19. (Reporting by Kevin Yao; Editing by Eric Meijer)