Spurred by increase in exports of services, Macao's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 10.2 percent year on year in the second quarter.
Exports to three of New Zealand's top five trade partners plunged last month, as demand fell for crude oil and dairy products, while imports rose.
Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose 6.9 percent year-on-year in July, larger than the 4.1-percent year-on-year increase in June.
The total spending of visitors to Macao (excluding gaming expenses) reached 13.9 billion patacas ($1. 74 billion) in the second quarter of 2013, up 23 percent year-on-year.
Proportion of international business in the local banking sector of Macao increased in the second quarter of 2013.
The investment of most provinces in the first half of the year outpaced the national average of 20.1 percent, but general momentum slowed down.
Human activity along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River - such as building hydropower stations and excessive fishing - has pushed its aquatic ecosystem to the verge of collapse.
Macao's visitor arrivals in package tours increased by 12.9 percent year on year to 4,610,370 in the first half of this year.
Around 150 Chinese drugstores in Chengdu announced on Thursday that they would stop selling products containing bear bile powder.
East China's Shandong Province saw its exports increase to $7.31 billion in the first half of the year.
China's western region has become a growth engine for the country's slowing economy, but experts warn it has an unscientific industrial structure and a shortage of innovation.
Beijing's GDP rose 7.7 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2013, up 0.5 percent over the same period last year, according to official data.
Emerging enterprises in cultural and creative industries and trade services show promising potential for cooperation between Beijing and Macao.
The Chinese businessman behind the plan to build a waterway across Nicaragua said the new canal will serve as a lifeline for global energy trade.
China's northern business hub Tianjin has seen an 18 percent increase of foreign direct investment in the first quarter.
For decades, the motorcycle industry drove Chongqing's economic growth, making the municipality the largest center for motorcycle production in China.
"East or west, Guilin scenery is best." Virtually all Chinese people know the old saying that has been passed down for the last 800 years.
A graphical representation of Chengdu's key economic data of 2012
A person in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, won a record 108.6 million yuan on March 5 with a 40 yuan ticket of Union Lotto, a Chinese lottery.
Macao's visitor arrivals decreased by 6.1 percent year-on-year to 2,312,321 in January this year.
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