China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, would probably only increase moderately in 2010, an official with China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here on Monday.

The total length of China's rural roads had reached 3.3 million kilometers by the end of 2009, connecting 99.4 percent of towns and villages, a transportation official said on Sunday.

China's tourism revenue rose 26.9 percent to 64.62 billion yuan ($9.46 billion) during the Spring Festival, the National Tourism Administration (NTA) said on Sunday.

The rate of decline for China's household appliance exports by value narrowed by 7.55 percentage points in the second half of 2009 compared with the first half, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Sunday.

Total visitor arrivals to Hong Kong from Feb 13 to 19, dubbed as the Chinese New Year Golden Week, reached 782,163, up 16.9 percent over the same period last year, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced Saturday.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose for the sixth consecutive month in January, up 7.79 percent year-on-year to $8.13 billion, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Saturday.

Cross-bank card transactions rose 47 percent year on year to 56.9 billion yuan (US$8.33 billion) on the Chinese mainland during the Spring Festival holiday, China UnionPay said Saturday.

China's daily electricity generation during the week-long Spring Festival holiday rose nearly 30 percent year-on-year, figures from the power dispatch center of the State Grid Corporation of China revealed Saturday.

According to China Petroleum and Chemical Information (CPCI), an online publication focusing on China petroleum and chemical industry and the Asia-Pacific petrochemical market, China produced 83 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2009, up by 7.7 percent compared with 2008.

Macao's domestic loans to the private sector reached 100.8 billion patacas ($12.76 billion) in December last year, growing by 2.1 percent month on month, according to the figures released on Friday by the Monetary Authority of Macao special administrative region (SAR).