7.7 percent

The predicted growth rate of China's GDP in 2012, according to a blue paper issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on December 5.

4 trillion yuan

The estimated cross-border trade settled in yuan in 2013, up 30 percent from 2012 and accounting for 15 percent of China's total foreign trade, Deutsche Bank forecasted in a recent report.

48,000 km

The total mileage of China's electric railway network—ranking first in the world, said the China Railway Engineering Corp. Railway Electrification Bureau Group Co. Ltd. on December 4.

10.6 million

The number of private enterprises set up in China by the end of September, achieving an annual growth rate of 76.1 percent from 2007, said the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on December 4.