The increase trailed only November 1998's annual pace of 985,000.

China's economy has since grown at a double-digit annual pace.

Sales in the South fell 1.8 percent over all, to an annual pace of 2.8 million units.

The economy grew at an annual pace of nearly 4 percent through the third quarter.

The economy had grown at a 4.8 percent annual pace in the final quarter of 1995.

Home building and other residential investment fell even more quickly than the government said earlier - at an annual pace of 9.8 percent.

New housing permits rose 2.4 percent, to an annual pace of 2.1 million.

The 2010 census shows a 58.26% increase in the last decade, or an annual pace of 4.7%.

But investors will probably focus more on the annual pace of inflation in the second quarter.

The economy picked up slightly in the fourth quarter, growing at an annual pace of 0.5 percent.