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Baijiu, Rape and Executions

93% of executions worlwide

...are conducted by five countries: China, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Pakistan, and the US.

Amnesty 

 

2,131 gang-like organizations

...have been eradicated by the Chinese authorities over the last five years, the Ministry of Public Security said.

China Radio International

 

49.4

The lastest reading of HSBC's preliminary China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index, which measures the confidence in the sector fell from 49.9 in August.

The Wall Street Journal 

 

6 sex slaves

 ... were allegedly held by 34-year-old Li Hao in his basement. He killed two of them the man and buried them in the room to scare the other four.

 

 

 

China.org

 

$120 billion

 the value of trade between China and the Arab states in the first six months of 2011, a 36% increase from the same period last year.

China.org

 

20% more expensive

 The change in price of a bottle of Moutai Baijiu, the premium brand from Guizhou province, since January. Reports say the NDRC has told Baijiu producers to stop raiing prices.

Caixin

 

700 million trips by plane, train and boat

...will be made across China during the week-long National Day holiday that begins Oct 1

China.org

 

10.3% of gross domestic product

The contricution of agriculture China's GDP in 2010; half the proportion 15 years earlier.

Agence France Presse

 

73.95 million passengers

...arrived in, departed from, or transfered through Beijing Capital International Airport last year, and experts are predicting that the figure will exceed 80 million in 2011, approaching its towards its annual capacity of 82 million. By this measure, it is the world's second busiest airport after Atlanta.

Lianhe Zaobao

 

 

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