In January 2011, consumer price index rose by 4.9% over the same period of the previous year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

Investment in China's real estate sector in the first eleven months of 2010 grew by more than a third over the preceding year.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, retail sales in China reached CNY2.94 trillion in the first quarter of 2009, a year-on-year increase of 15%.

Despite the global economic downturn China's retail sector is still growing — albeit at a diminishing rate.

According to statistics from China's National Bureau of Statistics, the country's total retail sales of consumer goods reached CNY1.008 trillion in October 2008, a year-on-year increase of 22.0%.

According to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in July 2008, the total retail sales of consumer goods in China were CNY862.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 23.3%.