For the whole of 2024 prices were up 0.2 percent, the same as the previous year.
China's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) was 50.1 in December, marking a third consecutive month of expansion
The world's second-largest economy has for years battled sluggish domestic consumption, a persistent crisis in the property sector and soaring government debt
Retail sales expanded three percent year-on-year in November, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, slowing from a 4.8 percent rise in October that was its best reading in eight months.
Earlier this week, Yellen said softness in the oil market presents an opportunity for more sanctions
The contemplated move reflects China's recognition that it needs bigger economic stimulus to combat Trump's threats of punitive trade measures, people with knowledge of the matter said
Beijing is also strapping in for four more years of tensions with the United States under President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to impose stinging tariffs on China
Nvidia is also suspected of violating commitments it made in 2020, the statement said, when it acquired Israeli data center firm Mellanox
Exports jumped 6.7 percent on-year to $312.3 billion last month, China's General Administration of Customs said.
The global shocks have proven to be particularly damaging for China because they have come on top of an ongoing, secular loss of competitiveness.
China's National People's Congress has set the country's growth target for 2016 in a range of 6.5 percent -7 percent.
The International Monetary Fund downgrades its forecast for global economic growth, expecting economic activity to increase 3.4% this year followed by 3.6% in 2017.
China's economy grows by 6.9% in 2015, compared with 7.3% a year earlier, marking its slowest growth in a quarter of a century.
A professor in China invents a taxing new way of preventing students from turning up late for his classes.
The world’s biggest steel industry in China is in grave crisis.
World economic growth lost momentum in September, with China's factory output shrinking again, euro zone manufacturing growth slowing, and US activity steady.
