--- type: "Topics" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/topics/29792344.md" description: "China's April economic data:The real estate sector continues to collapse, the supply side continues to exert efforts, and the demand side remains sluggish.Everyone knows where the problem lies...In April, the industrial output above designated size increased by 6.1% year-on-year, expected 5.5%;In April, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 5.1% year-on-year, expected 5.5%;In April, the urban surveyed unemployment rate was 5.1%, expected 5.2%;From January to April, urban fixed asset investment increased by 4.0% year-on-year, expected 4.2%.From January to April, the sales area of newly built commercial housing was 282.62 million square meters, a year-on-year decrease of 2.8% (the decline narrowed by 0.2 percentage points compared to January-March), and the sales amount of newly built commercial housing was 2,703.5 billion yuan, a decrease of 3.2% (the decline narrowed by 1.1 percentage points); national real estate development investment was 2,773 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 10.3% (the decline expanded by 0.4 percentage points); funds in place for real estate development enterprises were 3,259.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 4.1% (the decline expanded by 0.4 percentage points). The real estate development prosperity index was 93.86." datetime: "2025-05-19T04:18:47.000Z" locales: - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/topics/29792344.md) - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/topics/29792344.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/topics/29792344.md) author: "[复利魔方3650](https://longbridge.com/en/profiles/7185361.md)" --- > Supported Languages: [简体中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/topics/29792344.md) | [繁體中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/topics/29792344.md) # China's April economic data:The real estate sector… ## Comments (7) - **KUNER · 2025-05-19T07:37:04.000Z · 👍 1**: You can write as much data from Dongda as you want 😇 - **長野原烟花店交易员 · 2025-05-19T06:57:27.000Z · 👍 1**: Humor Analysis: Unemployment rate 5.1% - **長野原烟花店交易员** (2025-05-19T06:57:40.000Z): After all, how can it be called unemployment without employment? - **Roy_Chow · 2025-05-19T04:19:59.000Z**: The data provided by our statistics bureau 🥹... those who understand will understand - **三万亿特斯拉计划** (2025-05-19T04:25:21.000Z): Explain in detail, I didn't quite understand - **Roy_Chow** (2025-05-19T04:26:01.000Z): Always on the road with broad prospects - **Roy_Chow** (2025-05-19T05:11:47.000Z): It's not me who said it was fake, you said it yourself.