BEIJING - China's value-added industrial output expanded 5.2 percent year-on-year in August, official data showed on Monday.
The data released by the National Bureau of Statistics also indicated China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, expanded 3.4 percent year-on-year in the same month.
Meanwhile, the country's fixed-asset investment rose 0.5 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2025, according to the bureau's data.
On the labor market, the surveyed urban unemployment rate on average stood at 5.3 percent in August, the data showed.
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Residential housing prices in China's 70 large and medium-sized cities continued to see narrowed year-on-year declines in August, while the prices also dropped on a monthly basis, according to the bureau.
