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China Numbers: Commutes, Dams and Cadavers


Numbers making news around China this week.

90 percent 

Proportion of cadaver donors in China who are executed prisoners. Caixin

508,000
Number of Chinese who left for the 34 developed countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2010, indicating a record exodus of professionals out of China. New York Times.

$5.2 million
Amount that must be invested to qualify for a soon-to-be-introduced Significant Investor Visa in Australia. The country is expecting many Chinese to take up the offer. Wall Street Journal

52 minutes
Time the average commute takes in Beijing. This is up 14 minutes from last year. Global Times

5 yuan
Price per jin of locally brewed rice wine in the small town of Baishun. This compares to hundreds, sometimes thousands of yuan for store bought baijiu. The town was forced to cut costs related to official banquets, prompting the local brewing. Wall Street Journal

42.2 percent
Proportion of 130 sites in western China where dams have been built or plan to be built that have a “high to very high seismic hazard.” China Dialogue

1 year
Prison sentence handed to a teacher who mistakenly rang bell to end the Gaokao college entrance exam five minutes too early for over 1,000 students. Shanghaiist

50,947
Number of government entities with Weibo accounts. Tech in Asia

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