Sales figures for offshore duty-free shops on the popular resort island of Hainan in south China during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday up 25 percent year on year

236%

Year-on-year growth of China's mobile data traffic during the Spring Festival holiday

180 bln yuan

Investment and financing in China's artificial intelligence industry last year

58,988 yuan

Average per-capita disposable income in Shanghai last year, the highest among China's 31 provincial-level regions, followed by Beijing and Zhejiang Province

1.74%

Year-on-year growth of Macao's composite consumer price index in January

$900 mln

Net foreign exchange sales by Chinese banks in January

15.33%

Year-on-year growth of Taiwan's exports in January, with the growth of the island's imports reaching 23.3 percent

362,992

Number of new firms established in Shenzhen in 2017, a rate of almost 1,000 new firms each day

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