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In 2006, China's e-Commerce industry enjoyed a fast rate of growth. In the first half of 2006, the quantity of Internet subscribers reached 132 million in China and telecommunications hardware, such as the broadband environment, were also improved.

Consumer catering has come along way in the past few decades, especially since the opening-up of the economy since the late 1980s, and the introduction of foreign fastfood marketing methods. Yet China’s consumer catering market remains strongly attached to its local traditions. These entrenched traditions have forced the foreign invaders to adapt both their menus and the way they do business in order to suit local tastes, all at the same time that they have been forced to change their operating methods in their established markets in North America and Europe. require the ability to dodge through heavy urban traffic. The massive changes that China has been seen over the past few years have also forced changes on the whole industry.

With the diversification of the global economy and social development, the global structural adjustment in the information industry is growing more and more visible. Market dominance has transferred from hardware to software and services. Developing the software industry is an important act in the informatization and industrialization of the IT industry as a whole. This act will rapidly promote China's economic growth. China has considered the software industry as the strategic industry.

Passenger cars are fast becoming a necessity in China, with the country’s high gross domestic product (GDP) rates encouraging people to invest in the market. The Government has also taken active steps such as lowering the tariff on imported cars to propel the Chinese passenger car market.

As an important component to the country's overall economic system, the China’s banking industry has seen rapid growth in line with the economic development of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The Conference Board announced that the leading index for Korea declined 0.1 percent, while the coincident index increased 0.5 percent in August.

In 2006, China made certain progress in upgrading non-ferrous metals industry, and the growth rate of fixed assets investment in non-ferrous metals declined somewhat. The investment in non-ferrous metals industry added up to RMB 1180.8 billion, up 24.1% and the growth rate decreased by 11% over 2005; besides, the investment in non-ferrous metals industry accounted for 12.7% of China's total investment in fixed assets in urban and rural areas.

The Conference Board reports that the leading index for Japan decreased 0.7 percent, while the coincident index increased 0.3 percent in August.

The passenger vehicle market in China grew 26 percent in the first half of 2007 according to data released by R. L. Polk & Co. (Polk). Excluding vans and pick-up trucks, Polk forecasts an annual total registration volume of 4.7 million passenger vehicles by the end of 2007. The market's annual growth rate has been above 20 percent since 2004.

The Asia and Pacific region as a whole is forging ahead on many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but there is uneven progress within countries and many of the less developed economies need global support to plug some of their key development gaps, says a new report.