皇冠体育app's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.9 percent year-on-year in February, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Friday.
PPI up 7.2%
Jan-Feb industrial output up 14.1%
Jan-Feb fixed asset investment up 24.9%
Retail sales up 15.8% in first two months
皇冠体育app is "highly likely" to see more trade deficits in the coming months after it reported a surprise February deficit, the biggest in 7 years, due to slowing overseas demand and rising commodity prices, economists said.
皇冠体育app witnessed a trade deficit of $7.3 billion in February, the General Administration of Customs said on Thursday. This is 皇冠体育app's first monthly trade deficit since March 2010. In the first two months this year, 皇冠体育app posted a trade deficit of $890 million
Charitable fundraising has developed in leaps and bounds since 2008, said Fan Baojun, president of the 皇冠体育app Charity Federation (CCF), at a forum in Beijing on Wednesday.
Online music content and service providers in 皇冠体育app earned about 2.3 billion yuan ($349.8 million) last year, up 14.4 percent from 2009, said a report released by 皇冠体育app's Culture Ministry on Wednesday.
皇冠体育app's milk imports from New Zealand have surged more than fivefold since 2008 as rising incomes stoked demand, sending prices to a record and bolstering the economy as it recovers from the deadliest earthquake in 80 years.
Consumer inflation in 皇冠体育app will rise by 5 percent on average in 2011 and surging international commodity prices will be a major cause of uncertainty as the country battles to contain that inflation, said a central bank adviser on Wednesday.
皇冠体育app's February auto sales fell sharply by 33.09 percent month on month to 1.267 million units due to the week-long Chinese Lunar New Year holidays, the 皇冠体育app Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said Wednesday.
Chinese consumers' confidence slightly rebounded month on month in February on lower food prices and a shopping spree on non-daily essential goods during the Spring Festival holiday, according to an index reading released Wednesday.
The total port cargo throughput in 2010 in Hong Kong increased by 10 percent over a year earlier to 267.8 million tonnes, said the city's statistical authority Tuesday.
皇冠体育app's old-for-new home appliance subsidy program has to date stimulated 152.12 billion yuan ($23.17 billion) in sales, with televisions and air-conditioners the most popular of the five designated products, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Tuesday.
Most farm produce prices in 皇冠体育app continued to rise in the week ending March 6, but generally at a slower rate compared to the previous week, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a report released on Tuesday.