China's working age population in 2012, the labor force aged from 15 to 59, reduced by 3.45 million from a year earlier to 937.27 million.
The inland city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China, is expected to become one of the country's economic powerhouses over the next decade.
China's economic expansion slowed to 7.8 percent year-on-year in 2012 amid external jitters and domestic woes, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Industrial output up 10%
Retail sales up 14.3%
Fixed-asset investment up 20.6%
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Chinese GDP is expected to increase by more than 8 percent in 2013, a high-level adviser said on Wednesday.
Urban rail development, and medical and other services are likely to lead the Chinese economy in 2013, which is almost certain to be a year of greater growth than 2012 was.
China's economic growth is expected to be around 8 percent this year. The country should get used to slow economic growth and transform its growth model.
Imported food is gaining enormous popularity in China, and greater amounts of it are coming into the country - but why is there this growing appetite for foreign products?
Mainardi is one of the principal architects of the capabilities-driven approach, which is deemed the winning formula not only for Booz Allen Hamilton.
China has three of the world's top 20 well-developed international cities in terms of both their capital hubs and innovation centers.
China will promote the opening-up of its financial market to both domestic and foreign players this year to attract wider use of the yuan globally.
Many hope that emerging rural consumers will unleash their purchasing power like urbanites did during the last decade.
Owing to recent scares involving the domestic food industry, China's middle class is increasingly turning to imported products.
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