500,000

Individual tourists (without contracts with travel agencies) from the Chinese mainland with Taiwan in 2013, up 176 percent from 2012

3.2 bln

Forecasted road trips to be made by Chinese passengers during this year's "chunyun," a 40-day period around the Spring Festival, up 5.8 percent from last year. Chunyun is that largest annual human migration in the world

32%

Percentage of natural gas used in China in 2013 that depended on imports

8.2%

Growth rate in profits for China's state-owned enterprises in the first 11 months of 2013

$10.82 bln

Total amount raised by 47 Chinese companies that launched initial public offerings (IPOs) on overseas markets from January to November 2013

39

The number of Chinese companies that launched IPOs on the Hong Kong stock exchange from January to November 2013

$2.96 bln

Total amount raised by Chinese financial institutions that launched IPOs on overseas markets