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RIVER TRAFFIC BOOM: A freighter waits to enter a lock chamber. The Three Gorges Dam's double-way five-step ship lock recorded cargo traffic of 78.8 million tons in 2010, hitting a record high (ZHENG JIAYU) |
Numbers of the Week
$108.48 billion
China's non-ferrous metals imports and exports rose 46.5 percent year on year to $108.48 billion in the first 11 months of 2010, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
173.23 billion yuan
Sales revenues under China's program to subsidize farmers' purchases of home appliances totalled 173.23 billion yuan ($26.1 billion) last year, up 170 percent from a year ago, said the Ministry of Finance. | 
