BEIJING (Reuters) - Government spending in China increased 25.4 percent in March from a year earlier, while revenue rose 12.2 percent, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday.
Government spending in the first three months of the year was up 21 percent from a year earlier, while revenues rose 14.1 percent.
The figures were earlier reported by Chinese state media.
(Reporting by Beijing Monitoring Desk; Editing by Kim Coghill)