CRAZY FOR ANIME: An animation fan plays with small figurines at the third China Guilin Innovation and Creative Culture Festival and Guilin International Anime Festival on September 23-25 in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (WANG ZICHUANG)

104.44 trillion yuan

Assets of China's banking industry totaled 104.44 trillion yuan ($16.3 trillion) at the end of August, up 16.6 percent from a year earlier, said the China Banking Regulatory Commission.

194.5 tons

China's gold output rose by 2.21 percent year on year to reach 194.5 tons in the first seven months of 2011, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.