China's FDI surges in June

China's foreign direct investment in June surged 20.12 percent from a year earlier to $14.39 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said.

China's fiscal revenue rises 7.5% in H1

China's fiscal revenue grew 7.5 percent year on year to 6.86 trillion yuan ($1.12 trillion) in the first six months of the year.

China's Q2 GDP growth slows to 7.5%

China's gross domestic product growth slowed to 7.5 percent in the second quarter, down from 7.7 percent in the first quarter. China's fixed-asset investment up 20.1% in H1

H1 industrial output up 9.3%

China's industrial output rose 9.3 percent year on year in the first half of 2013, according to the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday.

H1 retail sales accelerate to 12.7%

China's retail sales grew 12.7 percent year on year in the first half of 2013, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Monday.

China's fixed-asset investment up 20.1% in H1

China's urban fixed-asset investment grew 20.1 percent year on year to 18.13 trillion yuan in the first half of 2013.

China's June new yuan loans hit 860.5b yuan

China's new yuan-denominated lending in June stood at 860.5 billion yuan ($139.62 billion), up from 667.4 billion yuan in May.

China export down 3.1% in June

China's export dropped 3.1 percent year-on-year in June to $174.32 billion, while import down 0.7 percent from a year earlier to $147.19 billion.

China's June PPI down 2.7%

China's producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, fell 2.7 percent year on year in June.

China's CPI grows 2.7% in June

China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 2.7 percent year on year in June, up from 2.1 percent in May. 
Inflation higher than predicted
Consumer confidence hit
Shanghai investor sentiment drops

China's June manufacturing PMI falls

China's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector fell to 50.1 percent in June from 50.8% in May.
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Time to change monetary policy

China's social financing volume has increased rapidly in the past 10 months, but it has not been transferred to the real economy for several reasons.

Growth hangs in the balance

The growth of China's gross domestic product slowed to 7.5 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, down from 7.7 percent in the previous quarter.

Slower economic growth set to be a winning choice

Some people may panic as China's economy slows amid a belt-tightening monetary policy and economic restructuring, while Jim Rogers sees it differently.

Lin Yifu: State must control capital

Justin Yifu Lin talks about the ongoing liquidity crisis in Chinese banks, China's economic growth and capital control.He believes China's growth may reach 9 percent this year.

A time for some healthy harming

Chinese leaders are on their research tours to the provinces, just a week before the National Bureau of Statistics reports on the economy's performance in the first half of the year.

Backbone for further development

If China's share of world GDP surpasses the GDP of the US by or after 2020, then the number of Chinese enterprises in the Fortune Global 500 is likely to exceed that of the US.

'Bernanke shock' necessary

Two weeks after the "Bernanke shock", the stock and currency markets have returned to a close-to-normal state. The top concern for emerging economies is the outflow of capital.

No return in nation's economic transition

When the subprime debt crisis in the United States threw the world into a panic in 2008, all that China attempted to do, as the rest of the world expected, was to keep up its growth rate.

Major Figures

 

June

May

Price Indexes
CPI

2.4%

2.1% 

PPI

-2.7% 

-2.9 

Growth Indexes
PMI

50.1

50.8

Retail   13.3%

12.9% 

Fixed-asset investment 

  20.1%

20.4%

Industrial output

  8.9%

9.2%

Export

 $174.3

$183b

Import

 $147.2

$163b 

Surplus

 $27.1

$20.4b 

Financial Indexes
New loans

860.6b yuan

667b yuan 

M2 105.5t yuan 104.2t yuan
FDI $14.4  $9.3b
Other Indexes
Fiscal revenue 1.24t yuan

1.27t yuan 

 

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