China's welfare lottery has raised over seven billion yuan ($1.1 billion) for the country' s quake-stricken area in its Southwest since 2008.
Power-station coal prices at Qinhuangdao port, a Chinese benchmark, fell for the first time in three months, Bloomberg reported on Dec 6.
During the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-2010), China spent 3.3 trillion yuan ($495.3 billion) on social security, an annual increase of 17.6 percent, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) told Xinhua Friday.
China's output of ten nonferrous metals, including aluminum and copper, rose 23.9 percent year-on-year to 26.14 million tons in the first ten months, according to latest official statistics.
China Vanke Co Ltd said on Dec 2 preliminary data showed its property sales for November jumped 146 percent from a year earlier to 12.9 billion yuan ($1.9 billion).
China's grain output rose 2.9 percent year-on-year in 2010 to 546.41 million tons, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
Nearly 16,000 sale and purchase agreements for all building units were received for registration in November, up 31.5 percent from October and 42.7 percent from November last year.
General Motors and its Chinese partners sold 196,990 vehicles in China in November, up 11.2 percent from a year earlier, Reuters reported on Dec 2.
Shandong Gold Group said its mined gold output in 2010 was likely to grow 18 percent year-on-year to 25 tons, Bloomberg reported, citing a senior executive.
China's gold imports in the first 10 months jumped almost fivefold from a year earlier to 209 tons, Bloomberg reported on Dec 2, citing Shen Xiangrong, chairman of the Shanghai Gold Exchange.
China's prices for farm produce and producer goods fell week-on-week, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday.
China's home prices rose 0.8 percent in November, gaining for a second month even as the central bank raised interest rate for the first time since 2007, said SouFun Holdings Ltd, the nation's biggest real estate website owner.