China overtook Japan as the second largest economy in the world.

historic Overtaking , China has officially become the second largest economy in the world.According to GDP data from 2010 China is now the second world power China, a place that the Celestial Empire achieved displacing the Japanese : According to the results of Japan's GDP (-0.3% and +3.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010), it formalizes what was already known for some time.

A COMPARISON OF GDP. The comparison of the numbers from China (+10.3% GDP last year) has therefore become second only to the United States. Japan's GDP in nominal terms, amounted to 5.4742 trillion dollars, according to statistics published in Tokyo. The Japanese government states that China's GDP has reached its part the equivalent of 5.8786 trillion dollars. China has for years been on a growth rate close to or above 10%, but its increase in GDP in 2010 was 10.3%. Heavily hit by the global recession in 2008 and 2009, Japan's economy has recovered in 2010, growth reached 3.9%, but this result does not allow Tokyo to maintain its second position in front of the rapid rise of China.