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China’s state-owned enterprises generated 363.5 billion yuan ($57.7 billion) in net pro fi ts during the fi rst two months of 2012, down 10.9 percent year on year, said the Ministry of Finance.
China’s power consumption rose 6.7 percent year on year to 749.7 billion kilowatt hours in the fi rst two months, said the National Energy Administration.
The number of 3G mobile service users totaled 136.6 million at the end of January, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
China’s fi nancial institutions had issued a total of 2.95 billion bank cards by the end of 2011, up 22.1 percent from a year earlier, said the People’s Bank of China.