93% of executions worlwide
...are conducted by five countries: China, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Pakistan, and the US.
2,131 gang-like organizations
...have been eradicated by the Chinese authorities over the last five years, the Ministry of Public Security said.
49.4
The lastest reading of HSBC's preliminary China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index, which measures the confidence in the sector fell from 49.9 in August.
6 sex slaves
... were allegedly held by 34-year-old Li Hao in his basement. He killed two of them the man and buried them in the room to scare the other four.
$120 billion
the value of trade between China and the Arab states in the first six months of 2011, a 36% increase from the same period last year.
20% more expensive
The change in price of a bottle of Moutai Baijiu, the premium brand from Guizhou province, since January. Reports say the NDRC has told Baijiu producers to stop raiing prices.
700 million trips by plane, train and boat
...will be made across China during the week-long National Day holiday that begins Oct 1
10.3% of gross domestic product
The contricution of agriculture China's GDP in 2010; half the proportion 15 years earlier.
73.95 million passengers
...arrived in, departed from, or transfered through Beijing Capital International Airport last year, and experts are predicting that the figure will exceed 80 million in 2011, approaching its towards its annual capacity of 82 million. By this measure, it is the world's second busiest airport after Atlanta.