The Chinese government is projecting a fiscal deficit of 1.2 trillion yuan ($191 billion) for 2013, 400 billion yuan more than the budgeted figure last year.
China aims to hold this year's consumer price growth to around 3.5 percent, 0.5 percentage point lower than the inflation target set for 2012.
The expenditure in China's central budget on social insurance and job security totaled 575.37b yuan ($91.62b) in 2012, the Ministry of Finance said Friday.
China's PMI expanded for the fifth consecutive month in February, but at a weaker pace, influenced by the Spring Festival holiday and a decline in new orders.
Property prices in China's major cities saw the ninth consecutive monthly increase in February, with more of them reporting a price hike.
A total of 13 land parcels in Beijing valued at 10.7 billion yuan ($1.7 billion) were sold on Thursday, with the premium price dropping compared with the end of last year.
China will levy a 20 percent income tax on citizens when they sell their homes, the State Council, or the central government, said in a statement on Friday.
Home prices continued to rise in Feb
The combined net profits of China's commercial banks rose to 1.24 trillion yuan ($197.5 billion) in 2012, showed data released by the banking authorities.
China plans major bond market reform to raise the money the ruling Communist Party needs for a 40 trillion yuan urbanization program to buoy economic growth.
China's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector fell for a second month to 50.1 percent in February from 50.4 percent in January.
The more than 210,000 invention patents granted in China last year "illustrate progress in technology and the country's capacity for innovation".
Members of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China expect their investment budgets to total more than $16.5 billion over the next three years.
China's manufacturing production growth hit a four-month low in February, dented by the Chinese New Year holiday and weakness in external demand.
China's inflation may increase to 3.11 percent in 2013, up from last year's 2.6 percent, a report on the country's macroeconomic outlook said over the weekend.
Economic growth is expected to pick up 0.43 percentage points from last year to reach 8.23 percent in 2013, according to a report released Saturday.
In December last year, the value-added industrial output increased 10.3 percent from a year earlier, picking up from 10.1 percent in November, the data showed.
China's retail sales grew 15.2 percent year-on-year in December 2012, accelerating from 14.9 percent in November, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
China's fixed asset investment rose 20.6 percent year-on-year to 36.48 trillion yuan ($5.81 trillion) in 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
The economy's fourth-quarter growth quickened to 7.9 percent on government pro-growth measures. The rate ended a seven-straight-quarter slowdown.
China's producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, fell 1.9 percent year-on year-in December.
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