Figures

1.1b

The Chinese government has allocated a total of 1.1 billion yuan ($174 million) from the central budget to the National Publication Foundation since 2008， according to a statement from the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP).

6th

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China fell for a sixth straight month in April amid global economic woes.

51.1%

Macao’s visitor arrivals in package tours surged by 51.1 percent year-on-year to 754，163 in March 2012， according to the figures released on May 14 by the city’s Statistics and Census Bureau.

47，415

Shanghai General Motors Co.， Ltd. (Shanghai GM) will recall 47，415 Chevrolet Aveo-model cars over faulty brake fluid reservoirs， China’s consumer quality watchdog said on May 11.

10%

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on May 11 that the country’s gold output in the first three months of the year reached 80.8 tonnes， up 10 percent year on year.

2.1%

Macao’s domestic loans to local private sector in March increased 2.1 percent month-on-month to 170.4 billion patacas (21.3 billion U.S. dollars)， according to figures released by the Monetary Authority of Macao on May 10.

26.01b

China’s foreign exchange regulator said it has approved quotas worth a total of 26.01 billion U.S. dollars for 141 qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) as of May 8.

3.15t

A report released on May 10 showed that China’s local governments sold 333，900 hectares of land to be used for construction in 2011， with the total value of the sales contracts reaching 3.15 trillion yuan (501 billion U.S. dollars).

4.7%

Hong Kong’s composite Consumer Price Index (CPI)， a gauge of inflation， rose 4.7 percent in April from a year earlier， easing from 4.9 percent growth in March， the city’s statistics department said on May 22.

1.33%

China’s auto sales dropped from the previous year in the first four months of 2012， as the slowing economy， the removal of subsidies and high fuel prices deterred buyers.

100b

The construction of a 100-billion yuan(16 billion U.S. dollars) high-tech zone was jointly launched on May 8 in southwest China’s Sichuan province by the provincial government and a Singapore company.

1.65t

Sales of the top 100 chain stores in China totaled 1.65 trillion yuan (238.63 billion U.S. dollars) last year， according to data released by an industry association on May 7.

6.7%

Trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in first three months totaled 35.12 billion U.S. dollars， down 6.7 percent from the same period last year， according to latest figures from the Ministry of Commerce.

17.3%

Hong Kong’s total retail sales value in March was provisionally estimated at 36.6 billion HK dollars (about 4.72 billion U.S. dollars)， increasing 17.3 percent over a year earlier， the city’s Census and Statistics Department announced on May 3.

3%

China’s top economic planning agency said on May 9 it will cut gasoline and diesel prices by 3 percent per metric ton for the first time since October after international crude price declines since late March.