China's economic figures in Jan. 2011

China's Jan. CPI up 4.9%

BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.9 percent in January year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Tuesday.

The figure is 0.3 percentage points higher than that of December.

China's PPI up 6.6% in January

BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 6.6 percent in January year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Tuesday.

The January PPI was 0.9 percent up from the previous month, said a statement on the NBS website.

China's foreign trade jumps 44% in January, trade surplus shrinks by half

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade surged 44 percent year on year in January, boosted by busy shipments ahead of the nation's Spring Festival holiday, while its trade surplus shrank by half, the nation's Customs agency said Monday.

Exports rose by 37.7 percent year on year to 150.73 billion U.S. dollars while imports increased by 51 percent to 144.28 billion U.S. dollars, the General Administration of Customs said on its website.