NUMBERS

($1=6.9 yuan)

250 bln yuan

Amount of money that the China Development Bank will invest in projects linked to the Belt and Road Initiative in the next three years

776.03 mln

Number of Chinese employed by the end of last year, with 43.5 percent of them working in the service sector—China’s leading employer

$145 bln

Beijing’s service trade volume in 2016, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent

54,512 yuan

Average price per square meter of new homes in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, in May, falling for eight months in a row

Industrial Enterprises’ Profit and Growth by Business Type

Industrial Enterprises’ Profit by Sector

Profit Changes for Major Industrial Sectors

500 mln

Number of Chinese that read news on their mobile devices, accounting for more than 70 percent of the nation’s netizens

$9.755 bln

Chinese companies’merger and acquisition transaction volume in the Belt and Road regions in 2016, jumping from $2.264 billion in 2014

$6 bln

China’s venture capital investment in the technology sector in the first quarter of the year, contributing 66 percent of the total invested in Asia

380,000 yuan

Amount of money that the average upscale Chinese traveler spent on travel last year, up 57 percent year on year