Photo: Liu Zhijun at trial
The numbers making news around China during the week of June 10, 2013
53,892 yuan
Average amount Beijing taxi drivers earned in income last year, lower than the city average of 56,061 yuan. Bloomberg
9.12 million
Number of high school students registered to sit China's gaokao national college entrance examination. This is the fifth straight year the number has declined since the peak of 10.5 million in 2008. Global Times
279 million yuan
Amount in Three Gorges Dam resettlement funds that was allegedly misappropriated. QQ News
114.5 million
Number of newspapers in circulation in China. Shanghaiist
6
Number of people diagnosed with cancer every minute in China. People’s Daily
166,000
The number of Chinese mainlanders traveling to Taiwan as individual tourists from January to May, an increase of 237.49 percent year-on-year. China Daily
350
Number of apartments that were uncovered belonging to former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun, along with more than 900 million yuan. South China Morning Post