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• China's Puzzling Numbers (link to full story on WSJ)
• China has over 900 million mobile phone users - China had more than 900 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of April (2011) with nearly two-thirds of the world’s most populous nation using cellular technology. (click for details on Vancouver Sun May 24, 2011)
• The most surprising demographic crisis: A new census raises questions about the future of China’s one-child policy (click for details on The Economist)
• China’s New Census: The Ancient Country Is Growing Old (click for details)
• Most recent census shows that China has 1.37 billion people (click for information of the most recent census and related figures)
• China Approaches 900 Million Mobile Phone Users (click for details on PC World)
• China's phone users reach 1.17 billion (click for details on Rediff Business)
• Facebook users in China doubled to 700000 within a month (click for details)
• 'Cellphone sales in China grew 57% in 2010' (click for details)
• By the end of 2010, total number of China Internet users reached 457 million, a 73 million increase over the year of 2009.
• China GDP grew about 10 percent in 2010 - Vice Premier (click for details)
• China's census complicated by citizens' reluctance to reveal personal details (click for details on OneIndia)
• China’s online-video market goes legit, Commentary: And Apple gears up to crack Chinese market - If there is one sector that has lived up to the China growth-story hype with truly big numbers, it is media and telecoms, with 450 million Web users, 800 million cell-phones users, and roughly 370 million TV households. By Craig Stephen --  (click for details on Market Watch)
• China begins once-in-a-decade population count (click for details from Xinhua)
• China has 189 billionaires - China's billionaires rose by 69 to 189 this year, according to the Hurun Rich List 2010 Tuesday (click for details on Sify)
• Beijing disputes IEA energy use data (click for details)
• China passes U.S. as top energy consumer (click for details)
• China revises up 2009 GDP, creeps closer to Japan (click for details)
• China Feb 3G Cellphone Users Grew to 16.06mn
• Special Link: Statistics: China Internet Users - Who are they? Where are they from?)
• China's 3G users hit 9.77 mln by October 2009.
• Total Suicide Number in China: 260,000 per year (2008)
• China hides North Korea trade in statistics (Reuters)
• China’s media activity has rocketed in recent years. It now has:
  
  2,000 Newspapers
  
  9,000 Magazines
  
  287 TV channels
  
  700m Mobile phone users
  
  338m Internet users
  
  180m Bloggers
   
• China's Internet Users is 338 million, which is outnumber U.S. Population (by end of June 2009)
• China's urban population exceeds 600 million;  yawning gap with rural income - Xinhua BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- China's urban population surged to 607 million with an urbanization rate of 45.7 percent at the end of 2008, a social researcher revealed Monday.

      The urban population had increased by 148 million since 2000, almost level with the rural population in the world's most populous nation with 1.3 billion people, according to Shan Jingjing of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

      In the early 1980s, the rural population accounted for nearly 80 percent of the total.

      The urban surge reflected economic growth and internal labor movements, including 130 million migrant workers who left rural homes to work in the cities, said Shan, who is also vice editor-in-chief of the Blue Book of Cities in China, published by the CASS on Monday.

      According to the blue book, China has 118 megalopolises of more than 1 million people, and 39 such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang are super metropolises of more than 2 million residents.

      Compared with the 2000 figures derived from China's fifth census, urban citizens covered by basic medical insurance had increased 93.87 million, basic pension insurance participants increased 17.53 million, unemployment insurance participants increased 7.55 million, employment injury insurance participants increased 16.37 million and maternity insurants increased 14.06 million.

      Urbanization had not narrowed income gaps. According to the blue book, the urban: rural income ratio averaged about 5 in 2008 by contrast with the gap in 2000 when the ratio was 2.79, said Wei Houkai, co-editor-in-chief of the blue book.

      With rapid urbanization, China was also encountering surging challenges amid the global downturn, which has had a serious impact on the economy, the book warned.

      "One of the challenges will be unemployment," Shan said. "According to research on 15 enterprises in five provinces, job vacancies have decreased by 5.3 percent since the end of March."

      The unemployment situation would be worsened by China's huge labor pool with an annual 15 million new job hunters and some 6 million college graduates this summer, Shan said.

      According to the Ministry of Agriculture in March, there were 11 million unemployed migrant workers.

      But the book also mentioned that a CASS survey conducted in Jiangxi, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Guangdong Provinces after this year's lunar new year (late January-early February) found that the migrant return rate was not as high as media reports claimed.

• China takes first place in email spam (Inquirer)
• Making Sausages, Data in China - China's economic data are a bit like sausages: If you're a fan, it's best not to scrutinize how they're made.  (Wall Street Journal)
• TAKE A LOOK-China commodities, energy trade and output data - Reuters
• Information official: China-based blogs exceed 100 million

  Nov. 7, 2008 - China-based blogs total 107 million, with more than 42 percent of netizens running a blog, a senior information official said here on Friday.

  Cai Mingzhao, deputy director of the State Council Information Office, made the comment at the 2nd U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum.

  The number of blogs was about 40 million just a year ago.

  Cai noted Web 2.0 service, which makes writing and other sorts of participation of Internet users possible, has inspired many people to create content online.

  There were 253 million people online in China as of June, up 56.2 percent year-on-year. E-commerce transactions amounted to 2 trillion yuan (about 300 billion U.S. dollars) in 2007, and 25 percent of netizens had bought something online as of June this year.

  "China has the world's largest online population and I believe the number is showing continuous growth," said Hu Qiheng, director of the Internet Society of China.

  Hu said online music and news are the most popular types of web content in China, and instant communication services, video streaming, search engines and online games also ranked high on the popularity list.

  "The Internet is a strong driver of the reform and opening-up process of China and a new engine of the development of China's economy and society," said Cai. (Xinhua)

• China said the number of Internet users in the country reached about 253 million last month, helping China overtake the United States as the world's biggest Internet market.
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• Trade between China, ASEAN hits $202.6 bln, three years ahead of schedule
• China exports $4 bln of farm machinery in 2007, up 50%
• Increase of college enrollment in China to hit decade low in 2008
• China's online gaming population exceeds 40 million
• China's phone subscribers to hit 976 mln in 2008
• Accidents kill over 100,000 in China in 2007, down 10%

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- A senior official with the Chinese work safety watchdog said Friday that 101,480 people died in workplace and transportation accidents in 2007, down 10.1 percent year on year.

"The production safety situation is improving nationwide, but relevant agencies still shoulder arduous tasks in the coming year," Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, said at a national workplace safety meeting held Friday in Beijing.

"The total number of accidents last year - 506,376 - was still unacceptably big," said Zhou Yongkang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the CPC Central Committee.

This figure is 19.3 percent lower than the previous year.

Zhou called on local governments to step up work safety supervision and inspections to prevent severe accidents from happening especially in some accident-prone sectors as the traditional Spring Festival is approaching in February.

In a similar development, the country's safety watchdog publicized temporary provisions on uncovering hidden dangers in the workplace on Thursday, another effort to improve the country's work safety conditions.

The provisions, which would take effect on February 1, 2008, stipulated that any person or unit could report directly to the safety watchdog on spotting potential dangers in the workplace in a timely manner.

Zhou added that the country had closed 11,155 small coal mines in the last five years and invested more than 83 billion yuan (11.42 billion U.S. dollars) to upgrade coal mine safety technologies and equipments.

• China To Sell More Than 10 Million Cars In 2008
  January 10, 2008 7:38 a.m. EST , Annabella Bulacan - AHN News Writer
  
  Beijing, China (AHN) - The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers announced that auto production and sales may exceed more than 10 million this year, from 8.7 million in 2007.
  
  According to the association's vice chairman, Dong Yang, even the skyrocketing oil prices would not slow ongoing growth in the auto sector.
  
  "Production and sales in China's auto industry will continue to expand at double-digit rates in 2008 despite rising oil prices and stricter emission standards," Dong said in a report by Dow Jones.
  
  Next to the U.S., China is the world's biggest car market and it ranks third in the global list of largest vehicle producers, behind the United States.
  
  Auto sales in the country were on the upswing since 2006 with recorded sales placed at 7.2 million units.
  
  Dong attributed the favorable showing in the improving economy and people's buying power, further stressing that, "Motor vehicles will play an extraordinarily important role in China's consumer spending".
  
  In a related report, Germany's Audi AG, the luxury car maker owned by Volkswagen AG, confirmed the significant increase in demand for luxury cars in China, including the A4 and A6 models.
  
  In 2007 alone, the company had total sales of 101,996 units in China, compared to 81,708 units sold in the previous year, translated to a 25 percent increase.

• China's tourism receives $160 bln income in 2007

By the end of 2007, the country had 13,583 star hotels, up 6.5 percent, while the number of travel agencies increased to 18,943 from 17,957 in previous year.

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• Total number of induced abortions in China: 13 million per year (Note: this number excludes the 10 million abortions by medicine and the abortions done in non-government registered clinics. (National Population & Family Planning Committee 2012)
• Smoking Population in China: More than one quarter of China's population (about 300 million adults) smoke, and tobacco kills one million Chinese people every year.
• The number of new HIV/AIDS infections in China was about 70,000 in 2005, with 25,000 deaths reported across the country.

• China's Internet Users is 564 million (by end of June 2012)
• China piracy cost software industry $20bn in 2010 (source: Sydney Morning Herald)
• By the end of 2010, total number of China Internet users reached 457 million, a 73 million increase over the year of 2009.
• China's Internet Users is 338 million, which is outnumber U.S. Population (by end of June 2009)
• Total online advertising in China is expected to reach 12.2 billion yuan ($1.76 billion) in 2008, growing 58.5 percent from last year, according to the Data Center of the China Internet.
• Online shopping in China topped 59.4 billion yuan (8.2 billion dollars) in 2007
• China has 47 million bloggers and 72.82 million blogs, though only 28.75 million blogs are active,
• China has More Than 2.6 million websites.
• China's online sales to top 51 bln yuan in 2007
• China now has 97 million broadband users.  

• China has 345,000 millionaires:
• China has 189 billionaires

• Most recent census shows that China has 1.37 billion people (click for information of the most recent census and related figures)
• China has 37 million more males than females
• Population hits 1.30756 bln by 2005: Survey.

• China accounts for 95 percent of global output of rare earths, 17 chemically similar metals used in hybrid cars and wind turbines.

• According to 2012 statistics, smoking population in China is 301 million. Among them, Chinese male accounts for 52.9 percent of total male population and female accounts for 2.4 percent (12.60 million female smokers). Around 1 million people dead for smoking and second hand smoking death number is over 100,000 everyear.

•  China has nearly 160 million motor vehicles. Jan. 2008

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China has 680,000 executives and 35% are women - China has 680,000 business executives in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, up 14 percent from 2007, and 35 percent of them are women, according to the 2008 China Business Executive Survey (CBES) carried out by China Market Research (CTR).

China?s rising class of business leaders is getting younger and higher in status. Department heads and general-managers make up 77 percent of the total and 25-44 year olds account for 70 percent. Managers born in 1970s are becoming the backbone of the group. Their average annual earnings were 157,000 yuan in 2008, up 36.5 percent from 115,000 yuan in 2007, while their household income grew by 39 percent to 263,000 yuan. The executive class, it seems, are media junkies, with 88.4 percent regularly reading newspapers, 86.3 percent watching TV, and 74.7 percent surfing the Internet.

The survey found that 69 percent of executives have favorite brand products that they are reluctant to change. Nearly all (97.3 percent) own property, and 61 percent focus on location and amenities when choosing a house. The number owning a car rose 10 percent to 47 percent; 65 percent say they consider safety features when deciding what car to buy, while 50 percent pay attention to fuel consumption and emissions.

74 percent have investments, with 43.2 percent owning shares, 27.6 percent investing in mutual funds and 9.5 percent owning life insurance policies.

Many felt under pressure, with 47 percent complaining of high workloads and 41 percent fretting over personal responsibilities. 66 percent said they felt more pressure at work this year than last, and over 50 percent said general pressures of life were growing. But 72 percent of executives say they are satisfied with their present jobs and lifestyle.

CTR Market Research interviewed 3,800 people in eight major cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dalian, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu) for the 2008 China Business Executive Survey. Executives were defined as entrepreneurs, department heads and managers responsible for at least 50 staff. By Jessica Zhang (China.org.cn October 6, 2008)

China's online advertising market near 11 bln yuan. Xinhua 08-02-24  - China's market in online advertising surged by 75 percent to 10.6 billion yuan (1.48 billion U.S. dollars) in 2007, according to a report by Internet consultant iResearch Inc.  The surge was largely driven by a boom in search engine advertising, or keyword advertising, which experienced an annual growth rate of 108.6 percent, said the report. Search engine advertising accounted for 27.3 percent of the market in terms of value, up 4.3 percentage points over the previous year, and it was predicted to hit 30 percent this year, the report said. Online brand advertising jumped 65.3 percent to 4.86 billion yuan in 2007 and was expected to reach 23.7 billion yuan by 2011, said the report. Advertising embedded in games, software and video clips would also become the major driving forces for online advertising, it said. The firm forecast that China's online advertising market would hit 17.2 billion yuan this year and 37 billion yuan in 2011. China had 210 million Internet users at the end of 2007, the world's second largest online population and only five million fewer than the United States, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. However, the United States reported more than 22.5 billion U.S. dollars in online advertising last year, about 15 times that of China.

Online shopping nearly doubled in China in 2007: report - BEIJING (AFP) — Online shopping in China topped 59.4 billion yuan (8.2 billion dollars) last year, state media reported Tuesday, up more than 90 percent from a year ago. Fifty-five million of China's 210 million Internet users shopped online last year, the Xinhua news agency said, citing a report by China Internet Research Centre and taobao.com, the nation's largest online shopping portal. In 2006, 43.1 million Chinese used the Internet for shopping, with the value of transactions standing at 31.2 billion yuan, according to an earlier report by China Internet Research Centre. The report released this year forecast online sales, which now account for less than one percent of China's total retail sales, would make up five to eight percent of total retail sales by 2012.

China's customs revenue in 2007 hits record high
China's customs revenue reached a record 758.46 billion yuan in 2007, up 24.3 percent year-on-year, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said on Monday. The customs revenue increased partly because of the increase of imports, which were up 20.5 percent to 865.5 billion U.S. dollars during the first 11 months of last year. The customs revenue from telecommunication equipment, integrated circuits, television receivers and printing machines rose considerably due to the increase in imports of these products, the administration said. More imports of high-end cars and SUVs, and rising prices of imported staple goods such as copper, nickel and other metals also contributed to the revenue rise, it explained. The higher export tariffs on some goods, which were aimed at curbing exports and balancing foreign trade, had also increased customs revenues by about 20 billion yuan, it said. www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-07.

China's technology trade exceeds 130 trillion yuan
People's Daily Nov. 24, 2005 - China's technology market reports a trade volume of 133.4 billion yuan in 2004. This is learned from the National Technology Market Work Conference held on Tuesday in Beijing. Enterprises became the biggest buyers and sellers in the market with their technological output and purchase accounting for 56 and 75 per cent of the total market trade amount respectively. (Click for full report)

Buying Chinese goods saves Americans $100 bln a year
by Liao Xiaoqi, Vice Commerce Minister of China
The Sino-US economic and trade relations are among the most important bilateral economic relations in the world. Over the 26 years since China and the United States of America established formal diplomatic relations, bilateral economic relations have developed rapidly with cooperation having expended to various areas of economy. The Sino-US trade volume has grown from the $2.5 billion at the beginning to $169.4 billion in 2004. By the end of 2004 the US has invested in 45,000 projects in China, increasing in-place investment to $48 billion. From January to October this year trade between China and the US reached $127.3 billion, up by 26.2 percent year on year. The US is currently the second largest trade partner of China while China is the US' third. (Click for full article) Nov. 30, 2005