First up,China's property market continued to recover in March, with most of surveyed major cities reporting month-on-month rises in new home prices.
62 of the 70 large and medium-sized cities surveyed saw new home prices surge month on month, up from 47 in the previous month.
Meanwhile, eight cities reported month-on-month price declines, down from 15 in February.
On a yearly basis, however, 40 cities posted new-home price increases and 29 reported falls in March, compared with 32 and 37 in February.
New-home prices in Shenzhen soared 62 percent year on year.
That was the sharpest increase last month among all the major cities, followed by Shanghai, Nanjing and the capital of Beijing.