China's business climate index, a major measure of the macroeconomic outlook, rose to a three-year high of 138 in the fourth quarter of 2010, indicating economic expansion despite tightening credit, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday.
Chinese private-run automaker Great Wall Motor Co on Thursday said it posted strong annual sales growth of 77 percent, as it manufactured 397,300 vehicles last year.
China's welfare lottery sales amounted to 96 billion yuan (14.47 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010, up 21 billion or 27 percent year-on-year, the Welfare Lottery Distribution and Management Center (WLDMC) said Thursday.
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) produced a record 7 million tons or 140,000 barrels per day of crude oil in its northwest oilfield last year, 6.1 percent more than in 2009.
The prices of Chinese farm produce edged higher last week, boosted by New Year holiday demand, the Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday.
China's output value of forestry rose 27 percent last year to more than 2 trillion yuan ($302 billion), a senior forestry official said Wednesday.
China's service sector continued to rebound in December, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said on Monday.
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector was back to growth in December last year after declining for two months, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said Monday.
Traditional ways of calculating global trade simply produce a number, but fail to reflect the complexities of global commerce where the design, manufacturing and assembly of products often involve several countries.
Measuring global trade in line with the principle of "the country of origin" fails to reflect the complexities of global commerce where the design, manufacturing and assembly of products involves several countries, experts said.
China's factory inflation cooled in December as manufacturers expanded more slowly after a strong run in growth, lessening the need for the country's central bank to tighten monetary policy too far.
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) of China's manufacturing sector dropped to 53.9 percent in December, down 1.3 percentage points from November, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said Saturday.