Hong Kong's jobless rate increased to 3.4 percent in November 2012 to January 2013, from 3.3 percent in October to December 2012.
Minimum wages in Guangdong province will be raised 19.1 percent on average from May 1.
The quota of allowable yuan loans flowing from Hong Kong to Qianhai could reach up to 50 billion yuan, Caijing magazine reported on Dec 31, citing an anonymous source.
The total retail sales of Hong Kong in 2012 increased 9.8 percent in value and 7.2 percent in volume year on year.
Provinces across China delivered stronger economic growth in the final quarter of 2012, according to the latest GDP figures from local governments.
More than 1,000 multinational companies had set up offices in Shanghai by the end of 2012.
Guangdong province, leads the nation in economy, with its gross regional product increasing by 10.2 percent year-on-year to reach 5.7 trillion yuan ($917 billion) in 2012.
China's western city of Chengdu set a trade target of $50 billion in 2013 after foreign trade rose 25.41 percent year-on-year to $47.54 billion in 2012, the municipal government said on Thursday.
The value of Hong Kong's total goods exports rose 2.9 percent last year over 2011.
A total of 316 overseas and Mainland companies set up or expanded in Hong Kong in 2012, up 4 percent over a year ago.
The government of the Tibet autonomous region plans to invest more than 3.5 billion yuan ($563 million) in 2013, 10.5 percent more than last year, in environmental protection.
Chongqing's GDP grew to 1.146 trillion yuan ($184.23 billion) in 2012, up 13.6 percent year-on-year, the second fastest growth rate in China and the fastest pace in the west of the country.
Economic growth in Zhejiang province surpassed the national GDP growth rate last year, a report from the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences said on Monday.
The size of China's city investment vehicle is expected to surge 25 percent year-on-year in January.
Macao's Composite Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 2012 rose 6.11 percent year on year, the highest since 2008.
Foreign trade for southwest China's Tibet autonomous region topped $3 billion last year, a year-on-year increase of 152.02 percent.
Hong Kong's Composite Consumer Price Index rose by 4.1 percent year-on-year in 2012, the city's Census and Statistics Department said.
Service sector has become a growth engine in Shanghai's economy as the city posted a contraction in total trade for 2012, the first time in three years.
The preliminary estimate of the Macao Special Administrative Region's foreign exchange reserves amounted to 132.5 billion patacas ($16.6 billion) at the end of December 2012.
Beijing has the largest number of rich people in China, but inland regions are now seeing faster growth in the number of dollar millionaires than Beijing.
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