Assets of China's banking financial institutions rose in value 18.9 percent year-on-year to 101.2 trillion yuan ($15.57 trillion) by the end of March, the country's banking regulator said Friday.
China's software piracy rate dropped 2 percentage points from 2009 to 2010, but the commercial value of the illegitimate software last year was up by 1.55 percent.
Non-performing loans (NPL) in China's commercial banks hit 433.3 billion yuan ($66.67 billion) at the end of the first quarter, a decrease of 300 million yuan from the end of last year, China's banking regulator said in Beijing on Friday.
According to the latest data released by the Commerce Department of China, Shanghai's total export-import volume of service trade in 2010 is $104.67 billion, a 40 percent year-on-year growth, with exports totaling $40.6 billion and the imports, $64.03 billion.
The value of property sales in China during the first four months of the year rose 13.3 percent year-on-year to 1.4 trillion yuan ($217 billion), according to the nation's top statistics authority on Wednesday.
Hong Kong's total exports volume increased by 17.7 percent year on year in the first quarter in 2011, said the Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) of the city government on Thursday.
Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblog service, on Thursday announced that it had about 140 million registered users at the end of April, up from 100 million at the end of February.
The Chinese government will increase its supplies of available land for residential housing development this year as part of the country's efforts to curb its runaway property market.
China's top statistics agency, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), offered an explanation on Thursday for a residential housing figure that confused the public.
Home sales in Beijing plummeted over 30 percent in the first four months of 2011, partially as a result of the government's actions to cool down the city's red-hot property market.
Tencent Holdings said on Wednesday its net profit rose 61 percent to 2.87 billion yuan ($442.2 million) for the three months ended March 31, 2011.
Businesses in China suffered losses of 128.4 billion yuan ($19.78 billion) from theft in 2010 and industry experts said that suppliers and consumers will end up footing some of the bill.
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