The chilly weather in Beijing did not cool down consumption in the three-day New Year break.
The State Intellectual Property Office granted 1.26 million patents in 2012 to domestic and overseas applicants, up 31.25 percent.
China's statistics authority on Monday revised its gross domestic product for 2011 slightly up based on its final verification.
China's exports to the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2012 rose 20.1 percent year-on-year to $204.27 billion.
China's trade with the United States in 2012 grew 8.5 percent year-on-year to $484.68 billion, accounting for 12.5 percent of China's total foreign trade in 2012.
Hong Kong outperformed Japan in 2012 and became the mainland's fourth-largest trade partner.
China's trade with the debt-troubled European Union dropped 3.7 percent year-on-year in 2012 to $546.04 billion, accounting for 14.1 percent of China's total foreign trade in 2012.
China's foreign trade in 2012 expanded 6.2 percent year-on-year to $3.867 trillion, the General Administration of Customs announced Thursday.
China's trade surplus with US up 8.2% in 2012
China's trade with EU declined 3.7% in 2012
Exports to ASEAN countries up 20.1%
China's producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, fell 1.9 percent year-on year-in December.
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 2.5 percent year-on-year in December, said the National Bureau of Statistics.
Dec PPI drops 1.9%
China Economy by Numbers
Chinese lenders extended fewer new yuan loans for the third month in a row in December as non-bank financing continued to become more common, according to central bank data released on Thursday.
China's State-owned enterprises administered by the State-asset regulator saw profits drop 6.9 percent in the first 11 months of 2012.
"Negative factors," led by eurozone woes, were responsible for the trade target being missed, said a spokesman for the General Administration of Customs.
China's power consumption expanded 5.5 percent year-on-year in 2012 to 4.96 trillion kilowatt-hours, the National Energy Administration said.
Land sales dropped but remained at a high level last year amid government efforts to rein in the property market, according to figures from the Ministry of Land and Resources.
Trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan expanded 5.6 percent year-on-year in 2012 to $168.96 billion, said the General Administration of Customs.
China's non-financial outbound direct investment in 2012 increased 28.6 percent year-on-year to $77.22 billion.
China collected 11.07 trillion yuan ($1.76 trillion) in taxation last year, an increase of 11.2 percent year on year.
Foreign direct investment in China in 2012 declined 3.7 percent year-on-year to $111.72 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said.
Chinese exports were targeted by a total of 72 trade investigations in 2012, according to China's General Administration of Customs.
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