China's industrial production, which measures output at factories, workshops and mines in the world's second-largest economy, rose 6.1 percent year-on-year in August, the government said Sunday.

Retail sales, a key indicator of consumer spending, increased 10.8 percent in the same month from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said. And fixed asset investment, a measure of government spending on infrastructure, expanded 10.9 percent on-year in the January-August period.