The numbers making news around China during the week of April 22, 2013

80 percent 
Increase in China’s cancer rate over the past 30 years. Marketplace

$3.1 billion
Amount that fund managers have pulled from Chinese stock funds in the eight weeks through Apr 17 as evidence mounts that the country's economic recovery is stalling. Wall Street Journal

3.14 megabytes per second
The average Internet connection speed in China. South Korea has the highest national average speed at 14.7 MBps. Global Times

12 percent
China’s poverty rate in 2010. This is down from 84 percent in 1981, making it the largest drop in the world over the past three decades. Wall Street Journal  

$8.8 billion
Apple’s revenue from China during the three month period ending Mar 30 – an 11 percent year-on-year increase and its best quarter ever in the country. Wall Street Journal

2.3 percent
Proportion of the U.S.’s net worth that’s owned by China. Business Insider

$15.5 Billion
Amount that China’s film and TV industries contributed to the Chinese economy in 2011. Hollywood Reporter

25 percent
Proportion of China’s economic growth that Xiaobo Zhang, a professor of economics at Peking University, estimates can be traced back to the country’s gender imbalance and men’s need to acquire wealth in order to attract a wife. NPR