They would have been bad figures half a year go, but they are now regarded as light at the end of the tunnel.

China plans to boost its annual grain output capacity to more than 550 million tons by 2020, an increase of 50 million tons from 2007.

Forty-five percent of Chinese on the mainland feel that the national economy has been getting stronger, showed a recent global economic confidence survey.

Rural households in China spent an average of just 139.3 yuan ($20.30) on entertainment last year, People's Daily overseas edition reported.

The G20 leaders pledged an additional $1.1 trillion to restore credit, growth and jobs, announcing a broad raft of measures to hasten the end of the crisis.