China's financial institutions received 11.68 billion yuan of net direct investment from overseas investors in the third quarter.
China's electricity consumption, an important indicator of economic activity, slightly recovered in October in a sign of an improving economic climate.
As new loans were lower than expected, the pressure for monetary policy easing has increased significantly, said Bob Liu, analyst at the China International Capital Corp.
China's economy lost further momentum in October, with factory growth dipping and investment growth hitting a near 13-year low.
China's consumer spending continued to cool as growth in retail sales retreated for a fifth straight month in October, official data showed on Thursday.
China's industrial output grew 7.7 percent year on year in October, down from the 8-percent increase in September, official data showed on Thursday.
China's urban fixed asset investment rose 15.9 percent from one year earlier to 40.62 trillion yuan ($6.62 trillion) in the first 10 months of 2014, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
China's exports showed an 11.6 percent increase year on year to $206.87 billion in October, customs data showed on Saturday. Imports stood at $161.46 billion, up 4.6 percent, the data showed.
The HSBC/Markit China Services Business Activity Index, which provides a snapshot of operating conditions in the sector, was posted at 52.9, down from 53.5 in September and 54.1 in August.
China's producer price index (PPI), which measures inflation at wholesale level, dropped 2.2 percent year on year in October, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 1.6 percent year on year in October, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday.
Activity in China's service sectors continued to moderate in October, with the purchasing managers' index (PMI) for non-manufacturing sector sliding to its lowest print since January.
Profits of Chinese industrial businesses hit 563.39 billion yuan ($92.36 billion) in September, up 0.4 percent year on year, official data showed on Tuesday.
China continued to see a bigger deficit in foreign service trade in September, the latest data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) showed.
Chinese manufacturers continued to see operating conditions improve in October, as a key index measuring factory activity rose to three-month high.
China's outbound direct investment is expected to grow 10 percent annually over the next five years as demand for industrial products and infrastructure surges in developed and developing markets.
Growth in China's consumer spending continued to cool in September as the country's third-quarter growth was the slowest since the global financial crisis.
China's urban fixed asset investment grew 16.1 percent year on year to 35.78 trillion yuan ($5.8 trillion) in the first nine months of 2014.
China's industrial production growth decelerated to 8.5 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters, down 0.3 percentage points from that of the first half.
China's gross domestic product expanded 7.3 percent from a year ago in the third quarter of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday.
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 130349 
