- Consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, rose 2.3 percent year on year. Producer price index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesale level, contracted 1.8 percent year on year.
- Foreign trade increased 1.2 percent year on year to $2.02 trillion. Exports increased 0.9 percent to $1.06 trillion while imports increased 1.5 percent to $959 billion.
- Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland stood at $63.33 billion, up 2.2 percent year on year.
- Outward FDI from the Chinese mainland stood at $43.34 billion, down 5 percent year on year.
- Value-added output of industrial enterprises above a designated size—principal business revenue of more than 20 million yuan ($3.15 million) a year—grew 8.8 percent year on year.
- Fixed assets investment totaled 21.28 trillion yuan ($3.43 trillion), up 16.3 percent year on year with inflation deducted.
- Retail sales totaled 12.42 trillion yuan ($2.02 trillion), up 10.8 percent year on year with inflation deducted. —The per-capita disposable income of urban residents stood at 14,959 yuan ($2,410), up 7.1 percent year on year with inflation deducted.
- The per-capita cash income of rural residents stood at 5,396 yuan ($870), up 9.8 percent year on year with inflation deducted.
- New yuan-denominated loans amounted to 5.74 trillion yuan ($924.8 billion), 659 billion yuan ($106.17 billion) more than the same period last year.
- As of the end of June, M2, a broad measure of money supply that covers cash in circulation and all deposits, reached 120.96 trillion yuan ($19.49 trillion), up 14.7 percent year on year.
- China's fiscal revenue rose 8.8 percent year on year to 7.46 trillion yuan ($1.21 trillion).
(Source: National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Finance) |