$1.8 tln 

Expected increase in the value of China's consumer economy by 2021

90% 

Expected percentage of all purchases in China that will involve digital technology at some point in the process, whether for browsing, comparing prices, or actually making the purchases, by 2021

6.36 bln yuan 

Fines handed out by the China Securities Regulatory Commission in the first half of 2017, up 149 percent year on year

50% 

Year-on-year growth in installed solar energy capacity of the world's power grids in 2016

2,595 

Number of high-speed trains that China had put into operation by 2016, accounting for 60 percent of the global total

$70.97 bln 

China's forestry trade volume in the first half of this year, up 10.8 percent year on year

25% 

Estimated annual growth rate of the total value of online retail sales in China in 2017

247 

Number of companies that listed on Chinese mainland bourses—119 in Shanghai and 128 in Shenzhen—in the first six months of 2017, raising 125 billion yuan

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