China's foreign exchange reserves hit $3.04 trillion by the end of March, an increase of 24.4 percent year on year, China's central bank said on Thursday.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, said Thursday that new yuan-denominated loans stood at 2.24 trillion yuan ($342.83 billion) in the first quarter of 2011.
China's Ministry of Transport said Thursday in a statement on its website that both passenger and cargo traffic saw fast growth in the first quarter.
China's overall power consumption in March rose 13.41 percent from a year earlier, extending the solid growth in past two months as pent-up demand emerged after a power crackdown in late last year.
Almost 50 percent of Beijing homebuyers estimate the prices will fall in the coming months after government measures to cool the market, a new survey shows.
China Everbright Bank Co said on Monday that its net profit jumped 67.4 percent to 12.79 billion yuan ($1.96 billion) for the 12-month period ended on Dec 31 last year, boosted by higher interest margins and commissions.
Car sales in China rose 6.5 percent to 1.35 million units in March, recovering from the lowest growth rate in two years in February but still well below the hectic pace seen last year.
China's home-made auto sales went up eight percent year-on-year to 4.98 million units in the first quarter of this year, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said Sunday.
Chinese consumers' confidence rebounded in March largely due to falling food prices and clearer macroeconomic policies, showed an index released on Saturday.
China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday that it will publish quarter-on-quarter GDP growth results starting in April, a common practice in developed countries, to better reflect economic changes.
China's Business Climate Index, a main gauge of corporate performance, declined to 133.8 in the first quarter of this year, from a three-year high of 138 in the last quarter of 2010.
Sales growth in China's passenger vehicle segment cooled in the first three months of this year. Analysts said that the first single-digit quarterly increase in the last two years indicated a downtrend for the whole year.
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