China's industrial production, which measures output at factories, workshops and mines in the world's second-largest economy, gained 6.0 percent year-on-year in July, the government said Wednesday.

Retail sales, a key indicator of consumer spending, rose 10.5 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 11.2 percent on-year in the January-July period.