BEIJING - China's annual GDP growth is expected to reach 9.2 percent this year and continues to experience a moderate cooling in 2012, a senior official said on Thursday.

Expansion of the country's industrial production in 2012 will also witness a growth pace that is one or two percentage points lower compared with this year, Huang Libin, an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said at a press conference.

The country's GDP grew 10.4 percent year-on-year in 2010.