China's industrial output rose 16.1 percent in October from a year earlier, as the economy saw a consolidated recovery of growth with massive government spending.

The increase rate was 7.9 percentage points higher from a year earlier and 2.2 percentage points higher than September, according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Wednesday.

Industrial output of the world's third largest economy increased 9.4 percent year on year over first 10 months this year.

Although the growth rate was 5 percentage points lower than that of a year earlier, it was 0.7 percentage points higher than that of the first nine months, said the NBS.

(Xinhua News Agency November 11, 2009)