Sales of Chinese-made vehicles in Indonesia continued to grow in the first quarter of 2026, underscoring the rising competitiveness of Chinese brands in the country's automotive market, local media reported Wednesday.

On Thursday, the first-quarter report of China's economy during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30) was released, showing that GDP grew by 5 percent year-on-year at constant prices. This growth rate reached the high end of this year's full-year target range of 4.5 percent to 5 percent, and rank

The surveyed urban unemployment rate in China averaged 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2026, maintaining the same level as that of the same period last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday.

China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, expanded 2.4 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2026, official data showed Thursday.

China's fixed-asset investment went up 1.7 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2026, official data showed Thursday.

China's value-added industrial output expanded 6.1 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2026, official data showed on Thursday.