The cost of settling China's rural workers into city life in the government's urbanization drive could be about 650 billion yuan a year.
Trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan totaled $101.14 billion in the first half, up 34.8 percent from the same period last year.
The government's tax income rose 7.9 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year, down from 9.8 percent in the same period last year.
Consumer confidence in China has topped that in other major economies to equal a record high, signaling that consumption will support the economy.
Growth of China's manufacturing sector slowed to an 11-month low this month, in the latest sign of a steepening slowdown in the economy.
Active, prudent steps needed to enhance skills of migrant workers.
Beijing's GDP rose 7.7 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2013, up 0.5 percent over the same period last year, according to official data.
The GDP data for the first half of the year prove that China's growth is not as bad as some people previously feared.
China's job market remained "generally stable" in the first half of the year despite the economic slowdown during the period.
China's fiscal revenue grew 7.5 percent year on year to 6.86 trillion yuan ($1.12 trillion) in the first six months of the year.
China's industrial output rose 9.3 percent year on year in the first half of 2013, according to the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday.
China's retail sales grew 12.7 percent year on year in the first half of 2013, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Monday.
China's urban fixed-asset investment grew 20.1 percent year on year to 18.13 trillion yuan in the first half of 2013.
China's consumer price index grew 2.7 percent year on year in June, up from 2.1 percent.
The expansion pace of China's non-manufacturing industries decelerated to a nine-month low in June, in line with the weakest factory activity in four months
Despite China's economic slowdown, German companies operating in the nation expect increased profits and sales this year, according to a survey.
China's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector fell to 50.1 percent in June from 50.8% in May.
Chinese consumers are planning to spend less, and shoppers in smaller cities especially are showing an unexpected reluctance to splash the cash.
As China pledges to turn into an innovative economy as part of a transformation in its growth model, it is gearing up for the upper end of the global chain.
Considered an economic "weathervane", the prices of bulk commodities in China have been on decline since the second half of 2012 and show no signs of a turnaround.
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