4.4%

Predicted growth of global trade for 2018 by the World Trade Organization

65.9%

Average asset-liability ratio for China's central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) by the end of March, down by 0.4 percentage points compared with the beginning of the year

$8.5 bln

Increase of China's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities in February

9.8%

Year-on-year growth of China's electricity consumption in the first quarter of this year

8.2%

Year-on-year growth of M2, the broad measure of money supply covering cash in circulation and all deposits, at the end of March, down from 8.8 percent registered in February and 8.6 percent in January

20.9%

Year-on-year profit growth of central SOEs in the first quarter, an increase from 15.2 percent for 2017

5.44%

Decline of China's gold consumption in the first quarter of this year

33.5 bln yuan

Predicted trade volume of China's e-book market by 2020

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