China's exports declined 2.8 percent and imports slumped 18.1 percent year on year in May, official data showed on Monday, marking continued pressure on the economy.
Women run more than half of the shops on online platforms Taobao and Tmall and account for more than 46 percent of online transactions.
Chinese factory activity contracted for a third month in May and output shrank at the fastest rate in just over a year, a private survey showed.
Manufacturing activity was on the verge of contraction, firming up policymakers' key task of stabilizing growth by new stimulus measures.
Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces in Northeast China are among the regions below the national level, with Liaoning at the bottom.
Profits of Chinese industrial businesses dipped 0.4 percent year on year to 508.6 billion yuan in March.
Manufacturing activity in April fell to a 12 month low at 49.2, according to HSBC's preliminary purchasing managers' index released on Thursday.
The total value of yuan-denominated bonds issued in China in the first quarter of the year reached 3 trillion yuan, up 39 percent from a year earlier.
China collected 2.71 trillion yuan in taxes in the first quarter of this year, up 3.4 percent year on year.
China's real estate market remained weak with new home prices in March registering month-on-month declines in most of surveyed cities.
The manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI), a key measure of factory activity in China, posted at 50.1 in March, up from 49.9 in February.
China's flash HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 49.2 in April despite increasingly aggressive policy easing by the central bank.
Profits of Chinese industrial businesses hit 745.24 billion yuan in the first two months of 2015, down 4.2 percent year-on-year, official data showed on Friday.
Analysts expect first-quarter growth to dip below China's new full-year target of 7 percent - widely seen as the level needed to keep employment steady.
Foreign direct investment in Chinese mainland jumped 17 percent year on year in the first two months of 2015, settling at $22.48 billion.
The stronger-than-expected reading of CPI quickened from the 0.8-percent gain in January, the lowest level in five years.
China's fixed-asset investment rose 13.9 percent to 3.45 trillion yuan year on year in the first two months in 2015.
China's retail sales grew 10.7 percent year on year to 4.8 trillion yuan ($779 billion) in the first two months of 2015.
Growth in China's investment, retail sales and factory output all missed forecasts in January and February and fell to multi-year lows.
China's fixed-asset investment rose 13.9 percent to 3.45 trillion yuan ($560.06 billion) year on year in the first two months in 2015.
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