China's consumer confidence index rose in the first three months of 2011 after two consecutive quarterly declines last year, said an agency affiliated with China's statistics bureau on Thursday.
Hainan Airlines said on Wednesday that its net profits rose 8.24 percent over the previous year to 273 million yuan ($41.8 million) in the first quarter of this year.
Chinese State-owned enterprises that are under the central government, or central SOEs, posted a net profit increase of 22.4 percent for the first three months of this year.
Industrial value-added output of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) grew 16.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2011, 2.5 percentage points higher than the overall industrial value-added output level.
Hong Kong's Census & Statistics Department announced Tuesday that the city's volume of total exports grew 19.9 percent year-on-year in the first two months this year, meanwhile the volume of imports rose 14 percent.
China Vanke Co, the country's largest developer by market value, said Tuesday that its net profits rose 6.97 percent year-on-year in the first quarter on stronger sales.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China grew by 32.9 percent year-on-year to $12.52 billion in March, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Tuesday.
China's first-quarter lottery sales rose 33.8 percent year-on-year to reach 46.31 billion yuan ($7.09 billion), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Monday.
The combined profits of China's State-owned enterprises and State-holding companies rose 27.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to 512.35 billion yuan ($77.6 billion), the Ministry of Finance announced Monday.
More Chinese cities saw month-on-month declines in housing prices in March as the government continued its efforts to cool the property market, according to a statement from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday.
The Asia/Oceania region's share of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Canada more than doubled in the past ten years, with China contributing the most, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released four quarter-on-quarter economic indexes for the first time on Friday. The move is aimed at changing what has been seen as a controversial statistic, and a step towards accepted international standards.