Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland rose 1.9 percent in September from a year earlier, standing at $9.01 billion, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Thursday.
China's producer price index, which measures inflation at wholesale level, dropped 1.8 percent year on year in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.
Growth in China's consumer inflation slowed more sharply than expected to 1.6 percent in September, the lowest since January 2010, data showed.
China's exports saw the fastest growth in 19 months in September, expanding by 15.3 percent from a year ago to $213.7 billion, customs data shows.
China's service sector activity slowed down in September from a peak in August, data company Markit said Wednesday.
September data will show an improvement in China's real economic activity, albeit a modest one, Wang Tao, chief China economist with UBS, has forecast.
Activity in China's vast factory sector showed signs of steadying in September as export orders climbed, a private survey showed on Tuesday.
Positive signs of the Chinese economy can be seen in three aspects: trade, government policies and the housing market.
China's second-quarter GDP growth improved modestly on "mini-stimulus" and export recovery, edging up from first quarter's 7.4 percent to 7.5 percent year-on-year.
Unlike the United States, China will not use quantitative easing to stimulate the economy but will target financial support to weak links of economic development.
Positive signs of the Chinese economy can be seen in three aspects: trade, government policies and the housing market.
Wang Xiaolu, deputy director of the National Economic Research Institute, believes the latest economic data provides evidence the Chinese economy is rebalancing.
China's second-quarter GDP growth improved modestly on "mini-stimulus" and export recovery, edging up from first quarter's 7.4 percent to 7.5 percent year-on-year.
The reform of interest rate ceilings for foreign currency deposits has been expanded outside the Shanghai free trade zone.
When community officials approached him with a "house-for-pension" policy that allows elders to deed their houses for extra retirement funds, they met an absolute denial.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday that the government is employing precise adjustment and control measures to make sure that the pace of economic growth will be no slower than 7.5 percent so as to ensure job creation.
President Xi Jinping, in a recent visit to Shanghai, again urged the city to push the envelope in exploring a transplantable path for financial reform through experiments in its pilot free trade zone and stressed risk prevention as the "baseline" for reform.
The Chinese economy is sending mixed signals to China watchers who are keenly looking for the direction policy will take and the growth trend in the second half of the year.
China's status as a "megatrader" will continue to grow and businesses everywhere should be figuring out how to make the most of it.
China's government-led economic model has helped the country score an economic success, but it has also caused serious imbalances in its economic structure.