The numbers making news during the week of October 22, 2012

93,529
Number of overseas buyers as of last Thursday at the Canton Fair, where foreign buyers connect with Chinese manufacturers. The number is a drop of 11.4 percent from the spring session of the fair. Xinhua

$43,000
Per capita GDP (in 2011 terms) in Japan when its economy crashed in 1990 and began its “lost decade” of stagnation. By contrast, China’s per capita GDP last year was $5,445 - about that of Japan's in 1963. This contrast is being used as an argument that China has plenty of room to grow and isn’t on the verge of a Japan-style bubble. Reuters

28 percent
Proportion of Chinese who prefer Barack Obama win the US presidential election. This compares to 9 percent for Mitt Romney. BBC

7,136
Number of recent graduates who have applied for a series of sanitation positions, including maintenance and street cleaning roles in Harbin, according to local authorities. Shanghaiist

64 percent
Proportion of expats in China who say they witnessed a marked improvement in the financial status of their household upon re-location.
124 percent
Amount China Vanke Co., China’s largest real-estate developer, saw net income jump in the 3^rd quarter. This comes after interest rate cuts and relaxed local restrictions. Bloomberg

7,600
Number of applicants for a single job opening at China's National Bureau of Statistics. It’s one of the “iron rice bowl” jobs decided by the national civil service exam, which attracted over 1.1 million takers this year. China.org.cn