During the three-day Labor Day holiday which ended on Monday, Hong Kong's visitor arrivals from the Chinese mainland reached 303,637.
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country's largest asset lender, said on Tuesday that its international settlement volume rose 44 percent year on year to reach $1.06 trillion last year.
Net profits of Chinese companies listed both in Shanghai and Shenzhen climbed more than 30 percent in 2010 from a year earlier, as all companies have released their annual reports till April 30.
Chinese manufacturing growth slowed in April after a short pick-up in March as the government tightened liquidity and allowed the yuan to appreciate faster.
The gross product value generated by China's marine industry exceeded 3.84 trillion yuan ($590 billion) last year, up by 12.8 percent from 2009, according to an annual report released Friday.
The tourist destination of Sanya in South China's island province of Hainan reported 5.69 billion yuan ($876.2 million) in tourism revenues for the first quarter of this year.
The HSBC China Manufacturing PMI is unchanged in April from March at 51.8, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) said Friday.
Sinopec Corp, Asia's top oil refiner, said on Thursday that its net profits in the first quarter this year rose 25.22 percent year on year to 20.64 billion yuan ($3.17 billion).
Following a series of scandals, China's food and drug industries are facing "serious public mistrust," a recent report has found.
China's crude steel output rose 13.58 million tons, or 8.69 percent, over the same period last year to 169.91 million tons in the first quarter of this year, the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) said Friday.
China's Tibet autonomous region saw its gross domestic product surge at an annual rate of 19.8 percent to reach 11.5 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) in the first quarter of this year, the region's local statistics bureau said.
The Chinese currency Renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, Friday gained 61 basis points from Thursday to a record new high of 6.4990 per US dollar.