China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, increased 2.4% year-on-year in March, official data showed on Friday.
China's exports went down 6.6 percent to $170.11 billion in March, customs data showed on Thursday.
China’s exports fell 3.4% year-on-year while imports went up 1.6% in the first quarter, according to the General Administration of Customs.
The purchasing managers' index for China's non-manufacturing sector dropped 0.5 percentage point from a month earlier to 54.5% in March, new data showed Thursday.
Of the total outstanding external debt, registered external debt reached $526.7 billion, while the balance of trade credit between businesses amounted to $336.5 billion.
China's official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index ended its previous three consecutive months decline in March, rising a moderate 0.1 percentage point from February.
China's purchasing managers' index for the manufacturing sector rises to 50.3% in March, up from 50.2% for the previous month.
China's foreign trade in services saw a deficit of 58.5 billion yuan ($9.6 billion) in February, official data showed on Monday.
China's manufacturing activity contracted for the third month in a row in March, hitting an eight-month low.
China's power consumption slowed in the first two months of 2014 in a further sign of dampening in the world's second-largest economy, official data showed on Thursday.
A total of 123,300 enterprises had been newly registered in China in the two weeks since March 1, the launch of reform on the corporate registered capital system.
China's Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said on Tuesday that China's outward direct investment in the first two months of this year declined 37.2 percent from the same period last year.
China's foreign direct investment rose 10.44% year-on-year in the January-February period to $19.31 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.
Foreign direct investment into the Chinese mainland rose 10.44% year-on-year in January and February to reach $19.31 billion.
The outlook for China's economy for 2014 has yet to turn optimistic, as prices for large commodities stay sluggish.
China is set to introduce a population projection and assessment mechanism to better guide government decision-making in resource allocation and reproduction policies, according to a national political adviser.
The rapid deceleration of China's economic growth indicators in the year's first two months shocked the market, as industrial output, fixed-asset investment and retail sales all dropped to unusual lows.
The rapid deceleration of China's economic growth indicators in the year's first two months shocked the market, as industrial output, fixed-asset investment and retail sales all dropped to unusual lows.
China's fiscal revenue climbed 11.1 percent year on year in the first two months of 2014 to reach 2.49 trillion yuan ($408.2 billion), the Ministry of Finance said.
China's industrial added value expanded 8.6 percent year on year in the first two months of this year, official figures revealed on Thursday.
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