The number of small and medium-sized enterprises in Guangdong province exceeded 5 million by the end of 2012, accounting for 99 percent of the province’s total businesses.
The overall size of China’s strategic emerging industries significantly expanded in the past two years, said China's strategic emerging industry development report 2014.
Chinese e-commerce giant Tmall.com spent 142 million yuan ($23 million) on TV advertising for next year’s World Cup in Brazil.
In the week starting November 11, the country's biggest online shopping day of the year, Chinese couriers delivered a total of 346 million items, jumping 73 percent from a year earlier, according to figures released by the State Post Bureau on Monday.
Home prices in China's major cities continued to rise in October, official data showed on Monday.
The number of students who return is four times higher now than a decade ago and the government appears to have a renewed eagerness to tackle the problem.
Expectations are rife that the China and EU will eventually sign an investment agreement that aims among other things to reduce simmering trade tensions.
Regardless of cause and effect, most developing countries in Asia are now looking for ways to keep more of their top talent at home.
Bringing China's best minds home to roost
Chinese Party leaders' decision to increase the number of free trade zones (FTZ) will help open up the economy and invigorate growth, experts say.
Giving prominence to the market will help tackle industrial overcapacity and transform the current growth model, experts said.
China will further open up its economy by broadening market access, boosting regional cooperation and opening up its interior and border cities.
China is willing to push forward the negotiation with the European Union on an investment agreement, said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang here on Friday.