2.7 - the number of apartments per resident in the Inner Mongolian city of Ordos

For more background, see Melissa Chan's (China correspondent for Al Jazeera) latest report on Ordos, she recently returned to the city after originally reporting on the "ghost city" in 2009. Image via Time

China Business Times

2.75m - the diameter of a huge toasted meat nang (肉馕)

Cooked in Qiemo county, Xinjiang on Sep 23

Yahoo via China News Service

51 - Percantage of China's total population that will be living in cities by 2015

The prediction comes from Xie Zhenhua (解振華), the deputy head of China's peak economic planning agency - the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Although the article quotes Xie as saying the percent of the total population living in cities at the end of 2010 as 47.5, which is less than the 49.68% figure published by the National Bureau of Statistics in April this year, according to the data collected in the once-a-decade census carried out in Nov 2010.

China Business Times

1,300 - Number of foreign pilots working in China

China has more than 1,300 foreign pilots from around 20 countries, including the United States, Brazil, South Korea and Canada, said Li Jiaxiang, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. They're currently being having their qualifications and regulatory knowledge checked, in response to last months "Juneyao Airlines Incident"

Shanghai Daily

8.7 billion yuan - Amount spent on constructing a highway in Gansu

Catch is, only 80 days after completion, sections are already starting to fall apart

Global Times

200 Million Yuan - The size of the ransom for the return of the kidnapped wife of the head of Bank of China's Inner Mongolian Branch

There was a choice actually, 200 million yuan in cash, or re-instate three employees who had recently be laid-off. Yes, they were caught, no, they didn't get the money ...

Xinkuaibao

250 Million Yuan - Amount spent in 2010 on the Wuhan city governemnt's official car pool

The Wuhan Municipal government yesterday became one of the first city government to reveal how much they spent on the "three publics" (overseas travel, official cars and hosting official events) in 2010. This year they hoping to keep the vehicle costs down to 233 million yuan.

Wuhan Evening News