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GALOK DATACHINA / 2025

SOURCE-LED INDICATORS

Numbers first.
Reading second.

A compact desk for macro, household, property, labor and fiscal indicators. Definitions and source paths stay attached to the number; longer arguments live in Essays.

01 / LATEST

Current signals.

Annual 2025 releases / latest published values on this desk
RETAIL SALES+3.7%

Annual growth

NBS ↗
URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT5.2%

2025 average surveyed rate

NBS ↗

02 / EXPLORE

Find a series.

Search by indicator or narrow the desk by subject. Version one keeps the catalog deliberately small: every row must have a definition and a source before it appears here.

MACRO / 001

Real GDP growth

Year-on-year change in real gross domestic product.

+5.0%AnnualNBS ↗
MACRO / 002

Consumer prices

Annual change in the consumer price index.

≈0%AnnualNBS ↗
MACRO / 003

Producer prices

Annual change in producer prices for industrial products.

−2.6%AnnualNBS ↗
HOUSEHOLDS / 001

Retail sales

Annual growth in total retail sales of consumer goods.

+3.7%AnnualNBS ↗
PROPERTY / 001

Property investment

Annual change in national real-estate development investment.

−17.2%AnnualNBS ↗
MACRO / 004

Private investment

Annual change in private fixed-asset investment.

−6.4%AnnualNBS ↗
LABOR / 001

Urban surveyed unemployment

Average surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas.

5.2%Annual avg.NBS ↗
LABOR / 002

Youth unemployment, 16–24

Urban non-student unemployment rate; method differs from the pre-2023 series.

16.9%MonthlyNBS ↗
FISCAL / 001

Public-budget revenue

Annual change in national general public budget revenue.

−1.7%AnnualMOF ↗

03 / RELATED ANALYSIS

The argument lives elsewhere.

The Household Line — Galok data edition cover
DATA INSIGHT / ESSAY

China, in More Than One Number

GDP grew. Consumer prices barely moved. Property investment fell. The essay asks what each measure sees, where the measurements disagree and what those gaps mean.

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04 / DESK RULES

What belongs here.

Published statistics, definitions, units, update dates and source links. Interpretation longer than a short methodology note moves to Essays. Numbered empirical papers remain in Research.