China's economic and social development in 2012

-- Industrial value-added output rose 7.9 percent from a year earlier to 19.99 trillion yuan.

-- Fixed-asset investment rose 20.3 percent year-on-year to 37.47 trillion yuan.

-- Retail sales of consumer goods rose 14.3 percent to 21.03 trillion yuan. Sales in urban areas grew 14.3 percent, while the figure for rural areas surged 14.5 percent.

-- The total foreign trade volume rose 6.2 percent year-on-year to $3.87 trillion. The country's trade surplus stood at $231.1 billion, up $76.2 billion from a year earlier.

-- Foreign direct investment into China dropped 3.7 percent to $111.7 billion.

-- China's broad money supply, which covers cash in circulation and all deposits, increased 13.8 percent from a year earlier to 97.4 trillion yuan.

-- The narrow measure of money supply, which covers cash in circulation plus that in current corporate deposits, climbed 6.5 percent to 30.9 trillion yuan.

-- The total population stood at 1.354 billion people by the end of the year, up 6.69 million year-on-year.

-- The urban population reached 711.82 million, accounting for 52.6 percent of the country's total, up 1.3 percentage points from a year earlier.

-- Urban residents' per capita disposable income expanded 12.6 percent year-on-year to 24,565 yuan.

-- The per capita net income of rural residents rose 13.5 percent to 7,917 yuan.

 

 

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