In August 2021, the share of enterprises that reported that prices for purchased products rose again became very large (81%). This provoked an increase in the corresponding diffusion index, which for the fourth time per year reached 90% – the maximum value for the past 6 years. For the rest of...

In June 2021, the diffusion index of expected changes in incoming prices reached 97% – the highest value since 2003 and a typical level for 1993–1995. Apart from that, June can be called a very favorable month, taking into account high values of the level of capacities and labor utilization...

Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned...

"China Inward and Outward Investment Development Report 2016 gathers facts about two-way investment of China and its local regions, providing a wealth of information for a comprehensive understanding of the country's two-way investment development."