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 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%.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the total sales of social consumer goods in China reached CNY814 billion in April, an increase of 22% over the same period last year.