China's manufacturing activities fell to a nine-month low this month, according to a preliminary survey from HSBC.
China's actual use of foreign capital in May stood at $9.26 billion, up 0.29 percent year on year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.
Oil prices dropped Monday amid a sharp decline in China's exports in May. China's exports inched up merely 1 percent year on year in May.
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 2.1 percent year-on-year in May, down from 2.4 percent in April.
China's producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, fell 2.9 percent year-on-year in May, NBS announced.
China's industrial value-added output rose 9.2 percent year-on-year in May, down from April's 9.3-percent increase, the National Bureau of Statistics said
China's urban fixed asset investment rose 20.4 percent year-on-year to 13.12 trillion yuan ($2.13 trillion) in the first five months.
There will be almost seven million college graduates in 2013, promising the toughest job hunting season.
Expansion of the country's non-manufacturing industries slowed to an eight-month low last month, indicated by a purchasing managers' index of 54.3.
China's Purchasing Managers' Index for the manufacturing sector rose to 50.8 percent in May from 50.6 percent in April.
In China, market watchers are digesting the first contraction in factory activity since October.
China's manufacturing activity fell into contraction for the first time since October, a preliminary survey from the HSBC showed.
China's fiscal revenue grew 6.1 percent year-on-year to 1.14 trillion yuan in April, according to data released Monday by the Ministry of Finance.
China's urban fixed asset investment growth accelerated 20.6 percent year on year to 9.13 trillion yuan ($147.29 billion) in the first four months of the year.
China's industrial value-added output rose 9.3 percent year-on-year in April, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday. 
China Economy by Numbers
China's producer price index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesale level, fell 2.6 percent year on year in April.
China's consumer price index grew 2.4 percent year on year in April, up from 2.1 percent in March.
China's Consumer Price Index (CPI) is likely to grow between 2.2 percent and 2.3 percent in April from a year earlier.
China's exports increased 14.7 percent year on year in April, while import surges 16.8 percent, the General Administration of Customs said Wednesday.
Subdued factory and investment growth probably capped China's inflation in April and depressed producer prices for a 14th consecutive month, a Reuters poll showed, clouding the outlook for the Chinese economy.
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