China's retail sales hit 340 billion yuan ($49.8 billion) during the "golden week" of Spring Festival, up 17.2 percent over the same period of last year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Friday.

Northwest China's Shaanxi province has reported a significant recovery in apple juice and fruit exports as it shakes off the impact of the global financial crisis.

Foreign-funded enterprises in China exported $494.4 billion worth of machinery, electrical and electronic products in 2009.

China's electricity consumption in January 2010 grew 40.14 percent year-on-year to 353.1 billion kilowatt-hours (kWhs), the National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a statement on its website Friday.

China's imports of unwrought copper and semi-finished products fell 21 percent on the month in January, much less than expected as traders turned to material in bonded warehouses to cover local demand.

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, increased by 1.5 percent in January from the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced.

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, increased by 1.5 percent in January from the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced.

China's new yuan-denominated lending in January stood at 1.39 trillion yuan, down 14.2 percent from a year earlier, the People's Bank of China, the central bank said Thursday. 

Housing prices in China’s 70 large and medium-sized cities rose 9.5 percent in January 2010 from a year earlier, up 1.3 percent compared to the previous month, said the National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.

China's producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, increased by 4.3 percent year-on-year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced today.