One third of China's provinces and municipalities that have released their annual economic data so far have registered growth in urban disposable incomes.
Journalists usually report social changes, but sometimes they signify the changes themselves.
China has set a new emissions reduction target for 2013 by promoting an aggregate indicator budget control system for major pollutants, says a minister.
China will see the start of a new growth cycle this year, with GDP growing by 8.5 percent, so long as it remains committed to economic reform.
China's fiscal revenue growth slowed sharply in 2012 due to an economic downshift and tax breaks, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Tuesday.
An increasing number of middle-class Chinese are buying luxury goods outside the Chinese mainland, with more overseas travel driving the trend.
Despite rising labor costs and an aging population, China is still regarded as the top destination for manufacturing, says an int'l report on Tuesday.
Each year late in January the World Economic Forum brings together leaders from business, government, academia and the media at its headquarters in Davos, Switzerland, to meet and engage in five days' of lectures and discussions about issues of global importance.
An index that monitors the gap between the rich and poor has reached what experts consider an alarming level in China.
The Gini coefficient hit 0.474 in China in 2012, higher than the warning level of 0.4 set by the United Nations, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
But there are still doubts whether the index has accurately reflected the widening social disparity in the country.
Chinese enterprises generally started on the basis of their low costs, but to compete globally, that is far from enough, although a winning strategy may still contain a cost element.
Even though 2013 is well under way there remains considerable disagreement over the current and future state of the housing sector in China.
General Electric unveils the results of its "2013 Global Innovation Barometer," with China moving up to the third most innovative country.
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