Hong Kong employment growth continued in the October-December period with the jobless rate falling to 4.9 percent from 5.1 percent in September-November.

The number of visitors to Hong Kong Disneyland last year increased 2 percent to 4.6 million, while per capita expenditure dropped 1 percent at the struggling venue from the previous year.

China's State-owned enterprises (SOEs) gained 1.34 trillion yuan ($196 billion) in profits in 2009, up 9.8 percent year-on-year, the Ministry of Finance said on its website Tuesday.

The market scale of online games in China reached 25.8 billion yuan ($3.7 billion) in 2009, a 39.5 percent increase over the previous year.

The combined sales volume of China's supply and marketing cooperatives rose 14.75 percent year-on-year to exceed 1.23 trillion yuan ($180.8 billion) in 2009, the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (ACFSMC) announced Monday.

China attracted a total of $48.7 billion of "hot money" in December, the largest amount in eight months, according to China International Capital Corp (CICC).

Crude oil imports through south China's Guangdong province amounted to 35.18 million tons in 2009, up 8.2 percent from the previous year, local customs sources said Sunday.

The total foreign and domestic currency assets of Chinese financial institutions rose 26.3 percent year-on-year to 78.8 trillion yuan ($11.54 trillion) by the end of 2009, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) said on Saturday.

China's economic hub Shanghai in December posted the first year-on-year growth in both imports and exports in 14 months, indicating further recovery from the economic downturn, local customs said Sunday.

Property trading in Beijing in the first two weeks of this year slumped, following a string of government moves to curb soaring real estate prices.