Number of China-Europe freight trains that have departed from Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, since the Urumqi transport hub opened in May 2016

17 mln yuan

Value of peonies from Luoyang, China's "city of peonies" in Henan Province, exported to other countries in 2017

11%

Year-on-year increase of China's fiscal revenue in April, with tax revenue up 14.6 percent

9.4%

Year-on-year growth of China's retail sales of consumer goods in April

7%

Year-on-year growth of China's industrial output in April, driven by rapid growth in the technology and equipment manufacturing sectors

5.3%

Decline of China's service trade deficit in 2017, another step toward an optimized trade structure

23.3 bln yuan

Net profit of China's tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. in the first quarter, a jump of 61 percent year on year boosted by its booming games business

$70 bln

Investment from Chinese companies in countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative since its inception in 2013, with trade in goods exceeding $5 trillion

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