China's economy posted a 6.9-percent growth year on year in the third quarter of 2015, lower than 7 percent in the first half of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday. In the first three quarters of the ...
Tags: China's GDP, interest rate
China's value-added industrial output was down in September, partly due to a slowdown in the country's mining and energy sectors, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. China's value-added industrial output ...
Tags: Industrial Output, overcapacity
China has adopted International Monetary Fund rules aimed at helping to improve the transparency, reliability and international comparability of the country's statistics. The move, announced on Thursday, is being viewed by Beijing-based ...
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China's slowing power consumption and falling railway freight are signs of progress in economic restructuring, rather than evidence of failing industry, the statistics chief said on Thursday. Power use and rail freight are two major ...
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Business activity in China's non-manufacturing sector expanded in August with slightly slowed pace from June and July, official data showed on Tuesday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector fell to 53.4 in ...
Tags: PMI, non-manufacturing sector
China's refinery throughput rose 4.3% year on year to 43.54 million mt or an average 10.30 million b/d in July, preliminary data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. The July rate was down slightly from 10.59 million ...
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Housewives compare prices every day, including Zhang Ming, a 60-year-old retired woman who frequents a supermarket in Beijing's Fengtai district. On Sunday morning, she spent 45 yuan ($7.30) on 1 kg of pork fillet. "It's amazing ...
Tags: Pork, vegetables
China's producer prices continued to fall in July, pointing to looming deflation risk, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Sunday. The producer price index (PPI), a measure of costs for goods at the factory gate, ...
Tags: PPI, PPI contraction
Alcohol consumption has been on the rise in Australia compared to 10 years ago, according to a new study. As per the surveys undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2001 and 2012, the average consumption of alcohol by ...
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The Hurun Luxury Consumer Price Index, an annual study that gauges levels of top-end individual spending in China, has contracted for the first time in eight years. The LCPI 2015 dropped 1.8 percent year-on-year, said wealth researcher ...
Of 26 provinces that have released their latest economic data, 24 posted an increase in GDP growth in the second quarter, while stable growth remained a major priority for the latter half of the year, reported Shanghai Securities News. ...
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Profits at major Chinese industrial firms dropped 0.3 percent year on year in June, down from a 0.6 percent growth posted in May, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. He Ping, an official with the Department of Industry ...
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China's producer prices continue to fall in June, a sign of prolonged weakness of demand, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday. The producer price index, a measure of costs for goods at the factory gate, fell 4.8 ...
Tags: China's producer prices, PPI
Multiple economic indicators in recent months suggest the Chinese economy is over the worst as pro-growth and reform measures take effect, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). "Positive changes are occurring due to ...
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Profit growth at major Chinese industrial firms slowed to 0.6 percent year on year in May, down 2 percentage points from the pace posted in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Sunday. Profits at industrial companies ...