China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announced Thursday that $35.5 billion of hot money flowed into the country in 2010, accounting for 7.6 percent of the increase in its foreign reserves for that year.
The capital market played an increasingly important role in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of China's listed companies in the past five years.
Shanghai has set a growth target of 70 percent in tourism revenues over the next five years to 2015, local authorities said on Wednesday.
China Development Bank said Wednesday its outstanding foreign-exchange loans totaled $141.3 billion at the end of last year.
New Year greetings using mobile phone messages remained popular in China this year as Chinese mobile phone users sent 26 billion messages during the seven-day Spring Festival holiday ending on February 8, the country's top industrial regulator said Tuesday.
Oil gained for the first time in four days in New York as signs of shrinking stockpiles in the United States stoked speculation that demand is recovering in the world's biggest crude consumer.
Chery Automobile, China's largest automobile exporter, said Tuesday its global monthly sales reached a record high of 86,299 vehicles, an increase of 17.52 percent over the same month last year.
The Chinese currency, or the yuan, on Wednesday gained 74 basis points to 6.5855 per US dollar, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.
In the week ending February 13, farm produce prices in China declined slightly for the first time this year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a report released on Tuesday.
Shanghai-based Chinese companies made a combined investment of $2.42 billion abroad in 2010, up 57 percent from the previous year.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, said Tuesday that new yuan-denominated loans stood at 1.04 trillion yuan ($157.7 billion) in January.
China's import price for soybeans rose by 20.4 percent year-on-year to $558 a ton in January.