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BEIJING – The number of nurses in China has increased substantially over the past five years, with the country’s longtime nurse shortage being addressed, an official of the Ministry of Health said Tuesday. China currently has

BEIJING — China saw a trade surplus of $11.43 billion in April this year, according to figures released Tuesday by the General Administration of Customs.The country reported a small trade surplus of $140 million in March,

BEIJING – China’s trade surplus for April widened to $11.42 billion from $139 million in March The advance came as the nation’s exports soared because of robust growth, while commodity imports slowed, according to the General

BEIJING –?China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 5.3 percent in April from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday.The April figure was down 0.1 percentage points

BEIJING — China’s industrial value-added output rose 13.4 percent year on year in April, down from March’s 14.8-percent growth, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday.For the first four months of this year industrial value-added

BEIJING — China’s consumer spending continued to grow strongly as retail sales of consumer goods rose 17.1 percent in April from a year ago, the statistics authorities announced Wednesday.In April, China’s retail sales totaled 1.36 trillion

BEIJING — China’s fixed asset investment rose 25.4 percent year on year in the first four months to reach 6.2716 trillion yuan ($965.6 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Wednesday.Investment in April accelerated, pushing

BEIJING — China’s producer price index (PPI), a main gauge of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 6.8 percent in April from a year ago, down 0.5 percentage points

BEIJING — China’s new bank lending, an important indicator of monetary policy, stood at 739.6 billion yuan ($113.8 billion) in April, a decrease of 20.8 billion yuan from a year earlier, the People’s Bank of China

BEIJING — The value of property sales in China during the first four months rose 13.3 percent year-on-year to reach 1.4078 trillion yuan ($217 billion), according to the nation’s top statistics authority on Wednesday.Sales of residential