The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) of China's manufacturing sector stood at 55.8 percent in January, down 0.8 percentage points from the previous month, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said on Monday.
China's GDP growth was expected to top 10.4 percent in 2010 with sharp growth rate in the first half and relatively slow growth rate in the second half, according to the report.
China's private sector created 11.4 million new jobs in 2009, contributing to more than 90 percent of all urban new employments, latest figures from the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) showed.
China's total advertising expenditure jumped 13.5 percent to $74 billion last year, due to the economic recovery, market information provider CTR Market Research said in a report on Friday.
China's consumer confidence index, or CCI, reached a record high over the past 30 months at the beginning of 2010, with a sustained upward trend, according to a report released Thursday.
China planed to put local gross domestic product (GDP) unde unified calculation in a move to prevent provinces from cooking their economic figures, a top official with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here Thursday.
China's capital received 170 million tourists at home and from abroad last year, a growth of 14.5 percent year-on-year, according to data released Thursday by the municipal bureau of statistics.
China received more than 976,000 patent applications last year, up nearly 18 percent year on year, according to the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).
Both output and sales values of China's machinery industry exceeded 10 trillion yuan ($1.46 trillion) last year, the China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF) said Beijing Wednesday.
Marine disasters resulted in direct economic losses of 10.023 billion yuan ($1.47 billion) in China in 2009, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said in a report released Wednesday.
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