The Chinese yuan strengthened to a record high against the US dollar on Thursday to reach 6.5997 per dollar. Yuan among world's safest currencies: expert
China's net imports of oil products may fall 23 percent this year as the world's fastest-growing economy slows and domestic refiners expand capacity, according to the research unit of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC).
China's economy, the biggest emerging economy, is to grow 8.0 percent this year and 7.8 percent in 2012, according to the Global Economic Prospects 2010, a report released by the World Bank on Wednesday.
China's lottery sales in 2010 rose 25.5 percent year-on-year to 166.25 billion yuan ($25.14 billion), figures released Wednesday by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) showed.
The total value of China's newly signed overseas contracts in 2010 increased 3 percent year-on-year to hit about $130 billion, Vice Commerce Minister Chen Jian said at a conference Wednesday.
About 1.23 million Chinese mainland tourists visited Taiwan last year, a sharp increase of 127.8 percent year-on-year, the island's tourist authority announced Tuesday.
China's express delivery topped 10 million pieces a day as of the end of 2010, ranking the third most deliveries in the world, the State Post Bureau (SPB) said on Tuesday.
The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, reported a record 1.45 million tourist arrivals last year, a local tourism company said Tuesday.
China Southern Airlines Co Ltd estimated 2010 profit would be about 15 times that of 2009 as demand for passenger and cargo transportation services soared.
China's civil aviation industry boomed last year as increasing air travel drove profits to 43.7 billion yuan, a senior Chinese aviation official said Tuesday.
The prices of Chinese farm produce rose for a second consecutive week in the week ending January 9, pushed up by icy weather in South China, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday.
China's automobile market registered the highest annual sales in the history of the global automobile industry in 2010, far surpassing those of the United States for a second consecutive year.