Last year, sales for Ford and its Chinese partners rose 21 percent to 626, 616 units.
Chinese output rose due to additional supply from small to mid-sized mines, and output increased in Canada and Brazil.
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Other data released on Sunday showed that Chinese inflation rose slightly to 3% in November - from 2.7% in October.
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The World Luxury Association, when it reported the Mainland spending plunge during the lunar new year period, stated that purchases by Chinese overseas rose 18%.
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Chinese IPOs rose 24% from the same period last year.
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Also, the average price of housing in 100 major Chinese cities rose in August for the third straight month, indicating that the decline in property prices appears to have bottomed out.
The same Institute study show a record-high enrollment in the U.S. from abroad, up 6% in the latest year. (Growth had dropped off in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis, as it did after the 2001 terrorist attack and visa stringencies.) The Chinese component rose 23% among graduate students and 31% for undergrads.
Sales in March by Chinese domestic brands rose 14 percent to 688, 000 vehicles, the group said.
Chinese power consumption rose in April by 3.7% year-over-year, down significantly from the previous month.
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Chinese consumer prices rose 5.4% year-on-year in March while food prices spiked 11.9% in the same time.
It was reported overnight that Chinese consumer prices rose 5.5% on a year-on-year basis in May, which was stronger than expected.
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Despite widespread claims of a demand slowdown due to high crude prices, Chinese oil demand rose 10.6% year over year in March.
Among individual stocks, Chinese property stocks rose sharply.
Chinese solar panel makers, who rose to prominence after expanding their manufacturing operations quickly in the past six years, have become targets of trade complaints in the United States and Europe.
Chinese are shopping and growth of retail sales rose 14.5 percent as a result.
Chinese exports to India and Russia in 2011 rose by 1.8 and 1 percent from 2002, respectively, according to the data.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.5 percent to 23, 134.51 after the Chinese government issued a report showing that inflation rose slightly in April, which could temper any stimulus response by Beijing to China's shaky economic recovery.
When asked why this initial investment in the US failed, Craig Heisner, vice-president of digital operations, explains: "I don't think the original plan adequately presented the heritage of Li Ning as a major Chinese brand founded by a famous Olympian who rose to the top".
In overnight trading, U.S. stocks rose in part of the strength of Chinese data on industrial production, which increased by 13.3% in May from a year earlier.
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In news involving other Chinese companies traded in Hong Kong, China Yurun Food rose by 3.7% after the company issued a statement denying rumors of financial problems.
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The number of Chinese visitors (mostly in group tours) to Japan rose 36 percent in the first five months of 2010 from the same period last year, to about 600, 000.
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Steel production has grown steadily in recent years in China, and rose 3.1% in 2012, as the Chinese government invested heavily in roads, railways and other infrastructure to support economic growth.
The number of Chinese cities seeing a month-on-month increase in home prices rose to the highest level in 11 months in June, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday.
There was further evidence Friday that global economy is slowing, with Chinese and European manufacturing data coming in lower than expected and the eurozone unemployment rate rose to the highest level since the euro currency was created, with the 17-nation jobless rate at 11%.
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This week, secondary-market yields on Chinese government bonds ticked up by 0.1 percentage point, while those on bonds issued by banks rose between 0.1 and 0.15 percentage points.
The profit at the Chinese unit of HSBC Holdings PLC, the largest foreign bank in China with more than 130 outlets, rose to 3.42 billion yuan in 2011, almost four times that of the previous year, after rising 28% in 2010.
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