Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities rose slightly in the week ending December 15 compared with the previous week, showed a Ministry of Commerce statement on Tuesday.
A portal on public information for the logistics industry was launched in Guangdong province on Tuesday and is expected to raise the efficiency of logistics operations by 20 percent.
China's electricity consumption grew 7.5 percent year on year to 4.83 trillion kilowatt hours (kwh) between January and November, according to the China Electricity Council (CEC).
Chinese leaders have made cleaning up government debt a crucial task for next year, threatening to tighten fiscal discipline to defend financial stability.
Department stores in China's big cities likely will face increasing pressure to be profitable in 2014 due to mounting consumer preference for other retail formats, rising rents and a shifting of growth to lower-tier cities.
Next year will see record figures for Chinese IPO due to the resumption of IPOs on the Chinese mainland and strong Hong Kong momentum.
A majority of global investment professionals have strong confidence that China's stable economic progress in 2014 will be a positive force for global growth, According to the 2014 Global Market Sentiment Survey conducted by the CFA Institute.
Restaurant owners and customers in China are witnessing a seesaw battle between catering industry guilds and commerce authorities over "unfair requirements".
Hana Bank (China), the third-largest bank in South Korea, has signed an investment agreement with the high-tech development zone in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, showing its desire to develop further in China.
Allowing foreign currencies to be freely traded with the home currency is common in many countries. But giving a foreign currency the same status as the home unit is not, and China has acted differently.
In late November, China decided to resume initial public offerings in January after a freeze of more than a year. Along with the decision was a new set of rules governing the issuance of IPOs.
Samsung's $7 billion chip manufacturing project in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, is proceeding smoothly with the installation and commissioning of manufacturer equipment starting in December, China Daily learned recently.