As cell phones provide a more convenient and inconspicuous alternative to net surfing, Chinese minors are obtaining access to the Internet at a much younger age, triggering concerns about their healthy development, according to a recent survey.
The Chinese government has helped retrieve 39.12 billion yuan ($5.95 billion) in back pay for some 33.53 million workers during the past five years, an official said on Monday.
Hong Kong's total Exchange Fund assets rose HK$159.3 billion ($20.45 billion) from the end of December, 2010 to HK$2.505 trillion at the end of January, 2011, the city's Monetary Authority said on Monday.
China Monday said its trade deficit of cultural products and services have been gradually shrinking in recent years.
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) of China's manufacturing sector weakened to 52.2 percent in February, a six-month low, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said Tuesday.
China's holdings of long-term US Treasury securities totaled $1.16 trillion at the end of December 2010, according to an annual revision report released by the US Treasury Department on Monday.
A report by the China Electronic Chamber of Commerce (CECC) Sunday said that among the 14 tested brands' 34 products, 15.9% of the products' function terms were below industrial standards, Jinghua Times reported Monday.
China's energy consumption per 10,000 yuan ($1,520) of gross domestic product went down 4.01 percent year-on-year in 2010, said the National Bureau of Statistics Monday.
The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) told Xinhua Saturday that China's gross oceanic product was worth 3.8 trillion yuan ($577.89 billion).
New mortgage loans in Hong Kong dropped by 3.2 percent month on month in January to HK$28 billion, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said on Friday.
Three years after the establishment of third-generation (3G) networks by China's three major telecommunications companies, the number of 3G users passed 50 million in January.
The industrial added value of all above-scale industries increased 15.7 percent year-on-year in 2010, 4.7 percentage points higher than last year's figure.