Foreign direct investment into China fell for a sixth straight month in April amid global economic woes.
FDI edged down 0.74 percent year-on-year to $8.4 billion in April, following a 6.1 percent drop in March, 0.9 percent decline in February and 0.3 percent fall in January, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday.
China's new yuan-denominated loans reached 681.8 billion yuan ($108.2 billion) in April, down 61.2 billion yuan, the central bank said Friday.
The figure was down from 1.01 trillion yuan in March, 710.7 billion yuan in February and 738 billion yuan in January, according to the People's Bank of China.
China's fiscal revenue rose 6.9 percent year-on-year in April to 1.08 trillion yuan ($171.02 billion), the Ministry of Finance said on Friday.
Sales of commercial housing units fell 11.8 percent Y-O-Y to reach $197 billion in value in the first four months of this year, the NBS said Friday.
As the property market remains weak, investment in real estate development in the January-April period increased 18.7 percent from a year ago to 1.58 trillion yuan, slowing 4.8 percentage points from the January-March period.
China's urban fixed-asset investment rose 20.2 percent year-on-year to $1.2 trillion in the first four months of this year, the NBS said Friday.
Investment in property development increased 18.7 percent from a year earlier, the NBS said.
China's industrial value-added output grew 9.3 percent year-on-year in April after adjusted by inflation, the NBS said Friday.
China's retail sales grew 14.1 percent year-on-year to 1.56 trillion yuan ($247.8 billion) in April, the NBS said Friday.
After deducting inflation, retail sales growth in real terms was 10.7 percent in April and on a monthly basis, sales went up 1.13 percent.
China's PPI, a main gauge of inflation at the wholesale level, fell 0.7 percent in April from a year earlier, NBS said Friday.
The data marked another month of year-on-year decline after China's PPI saw a drop in March for the first time since December 2009, NBS data showed.
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 3.4 percent year-on-year in April, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday
The growth eased slightly from the 3.6-percent rate registered in March.
China's foreign trade rose 2.7 percent year-on-year to $308.08 billion in April, with a surplus of $18.42 billion, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Thursday.
Exports amounted to $163.25 billion in April, up 4.9 percent year-on-year, while imports edged up 0.3 percent to reach $144.83 billion.
China's official Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 53.3 in April, suggesting business activity in the manufacturing sector expanded for a fifth month.
A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion of the manufacturing sector while a figure below that mark shows a contraction.
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