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China Numbers: Gaokao, Newspapers & Taiwan Visitors

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


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