245

As of 5.35pm on Tuesday evening, the number of passengers that Xinhua News Agency reported had been injured after a train operating on Shanghai's No. 10 subway line ran into the back of another train. A problem with the signaling system on the line had occured earlier in the afternoon.

Xinhua News Agency

4.5

The pace of year-on-year growth that China's CPI indicator could drop to by the end of the year according to official from the IMF who attended a conference in Beijing on Monday.

China Central Television

7

The price in RMB for a KFC breakfast menu item of "Century Egg Congee and Deep-fried Doughstick." The fast-food chain raised the prices of some products sold in Mainland China for the second time this year yesterday.

Guangzhou Daily

7

The number of company bosses from Wenzhou who are reported to have fled the city between Sep 12 and 22, "leaving thousands of employees in a state of shock and up to hundreds of millions of yuan in loans unpaid."

East Day

7

"China now accounts for 7 per cent of Coke's global sales volume and in the first half of this year it sold more than 1bn cases of its products in China, doubling the rate of its sales there five years ago."

Financial Times

2,000

Number of pigs given away to people in a village in Guizhou province after a province by China's "charity champion" Chen Guangbiao. Along with the pigs, Chen also gave away 1,000 sheep and 113 tractors. In return, the audience had to endure Chen's singing.

China Daily

4,000

According to a survey published by Moneyweek magazine in Guangzhou that was translated by Want China Times, it's 4,000 times more expensive to get married in China now then it was in the 1970s.

 "the cost of getting married has climbed beyond 2 million yuan in the cities of Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and costs more than 1 million yuan (US$156,304) in Guangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu."

Want China Times

144,182

The number of awards with the words "China" or "National" in their name that have been banned after a national award assessment team from the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CDIC) investigated recent allegations of bribes being paid in return for awards. The CDIC cut the total number of award titles from 148,400 to 4,218, forbidding event organizers from handing out the awards without approval from related authorities.

Gov.cn

1,100,000

As of the end of 2009, there were 1.1 million taxis operating nationwide across China, with the taxi industry employing close to 2.3 million people. According the the 21st Century Business Herald, over the past 7 years, there have been over 100 strikes in the industry.

21st Century Business Herald