0.1% 

The year-on-year profit decline in September in China's industrial firms that have a principal business revenue of more than 20 million yuan ($3.15 million) a year, narrowing from an 8.8-percent decline posted in August

4.05% 

The registered unemployment rate in Chinese cities at the end of September, slightly up from last quarter's 4.04 percent

2,081 

The number of projects with investment from Taiwan that the Chinese mainland approved from January to September, a year-on-year increase of 21.3 percent

15.1 tln yuan 

The worth of bonds issued in China in the first three quarters of 2015, up 70.8 percent from a year earlier

14% 

China's year-on-year increase in outstanding yuan-denominated loans in the real economy in September

40.6% 

Year-on-year growth in the net income of ZTE Corp., China's second-largest telecom equipment maker, in the third quarter

7,958 

The number of newly registered market entities in north China's Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone during the six months since its official launch (April 21 to October 20), which have a total registered capital of 212 billion yuan ($33.12 billion)

32% 

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's revenue growth in the third quarter of the year, beating market expectations

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