2021-07-15 02:10:36 GMT2021-07-15 10:10:36(Beijing Time)
BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) China continued to see a generally stable housing market in June, with home prices in 70 major cities showing slight month-on-month increases, official data showed Thursday.
New home prices in four first-tier cities Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou rose 0.7 percent month on month in June, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
A total of 31 second-tier cities saw a month-on-month increase of 0.5 percent in new home prices, while 35 third-tier cities witnessed a month-on-month rise of 0.3 percent in new home prices last month. Enditem
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Big declines seen in infectious diseases By WANG XIAOYU | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-07-15 08:13 Share CLOSE A medical professional with Beijing Haidian Hospital introduces material on AIDS prevention to a visitor during a free consultation event in Beijing on World AIDS Day on Dec 1. [Photo/Xinhua]
China witnessed significant drops in new cases of nearly all major infectious diseases last year, with the number of new HIV/AIDS infections seeing its first year-on-year decline in a decade, according to an annual health development communique released by the National Health Commission on Monday.
The number of viral hepatitis cases dropped by 11.5 percent year-on-year, with tuberculosis cases down by about 13.6 percent, the communique said.
China’s economic growth slowed to a still-strong 7.9% over a year earlier in the three months ending in June as a rebound from the coronavirus levelled off.
Growth slowed from the previous quarter’s explosive 18.3% expansion, which was magnified by comparison with early 2020, when the economy shut down to fight the coronavirus.
The economy expanded at a 1.3% pace in the April-June quarter compared with the previous three months, the way other major economies report results.
That reflects a return to normal for factory activity and consumer spending as government stimulus and easy credit wind down.
It was faster than the 0.6% expansion in the previous quarter over the final three months of 2020, which had prompted warnings the rebound was ending.
China s GDP rose 7.9% year-on-year in the second quarter, official data showed Thursday. That was lower than expectations by economists in a Reuters poll for a 8.1% rise.
Meanwhile, retail sales in June jumped 12.1% from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed above analyst expectations for a 11% increase, according to Reuters.
Chinese industrial output rose 8.3% year-on-year in June, against expectations by analysts in a Reuters poll for a 7.8% increase.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 closed 1.15% lower at 28,279.09 while the Topix index shed 1.2% to finish the trading day at 1,939.61. South Korea s Kospi advanced 0.66% to close at 3,286.22.
Meanwhile, the S&P/ASX 200 in Australia slipped 0.26% to close at 7,335.90. Australia s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 4.9% in June, the country s Bureau of Statistics announced Thursday. That was less than an expected 5.0% in a Reuters poll, and was also a drop from the 5.1% jobless rate in May.
2021-07-15 04:10:54 GMT2021-07-15 12:10:54(Beijing Time)
BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) China s per capita disposable income stood at 17,642 yuan (about 2,731 U.S. dollars) in the first half of the year, up 12.6 percent from the same period last year in nominal terms, official data showed Thursday.
After deducting price factors, per capita disposable income rose 12 percent year on year.
The higher growth rate was mainly affected by the low base in the first half of last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Separately, urban per capita disposable income came in at 24,125 yuan, up 11.4 percent in nominal terms, and 10.7 percent in real terms, while income in rural areas stood at 9,248 yuan, up 14.6 percent in nominal terms, and 14.1 percent in real terms.