Investment growth in China's property sector continued to slow in the first five months of the year, while sales volume of commercial housing increased, official data showed on Thursday.
China reported 320.5 billion yuan in fixed investment in railways, highways and waterways in this year's first quarter.
Sales in February remained on track for China's light vehicle market, with a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 24.6 million units, a level similar to that seen in January.
Although China's steelmakers saw a big rise in profits last year, the industry still has overcapacity problems that have dragged prices to record lows.
China's dependency on imported oil and natural gas grew to about 60 percent and 32.2 percent respectively in 2014.
China continued to see a bigger deficit in foreign service trade in December.
Consumption of information products and services in China surged 18 percent in 2014 from a year earlier.
Prices of imported iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports have continued a downward trend due to a sharp decline in the price of steel.
The trade volume in China's cross-border e-commerce pilot cities surpassed 3 billion yuan by the end of 2014.
China's information sector was worth a record high this year, and will continue to play an increasingly important role in the country's overall economy over the coming 12 months.
Growth in industrial activity slowed this year to 8.3 percent, the weakest expansion since 1998 when the figure began to be announced.
There are clearer signs of stabilization in the property market since the central bank's interest rate cut, with apartment prices in fewer Chinese cities declining in November.
VC and PE deals made in China reached a record high in the first 11 months of 2014, benefiting from the rising number of startup companies and the restructuring of SOEs.
China's imports shrank unexpectedly in November while export growth slowed, fuelling concerns that the world's second-largest economy could be facing a sharper slowdown and adding pressure on policymakers to ramp up stimulus measures.
The official services Purchasing Managers Index, a composite indicator covering operations in the service sector and the construction industry, climbed to 53.9 in November.
Despite the recent market stimulus measures, China's new home prices fell in November for the seventh consecutive month, private institutional data have revealed.
China's consumption of electricity grew 3.3 percent year on year in November, reaching 463 billion kilowatt hours (kwh), the National Energy Administration announced on Monday.
In November, home prices fell in 82 Chinese cities compared to last month. Average price of newly built homes is $1,726 per sq m.
China's lottery sales in October hit 32.7 billion yuan ($5.34 billion), up 20.3 percent year on year. Welfare lottery sales reached 17.75 billion yuan, up 14.5 percent year on year.
The business revenue of China's petrochemical industry in the January-September period this year hit 10 trillion yuan, up 7.7 percent year on year.
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