98.19 mln

Amount of overseas trips that Chinese tourists made in 2013, up 18 percent from 2012

5.9%

Annual profit growth of China's state-owned enterprises in 2013

7 bln yuan

Tax paid by Alibaba Group Holding, China's largest e-commerce vendor, in 2013, making the company top taxpayer among Chinese Internet companies

8,347

Number of small, high-polluting firms that north China's Hebei Province, having the worst air in the country, shut down in 2013, in an attempt to ease air pollution