Numbers on October 12-18
18%
China's net imports of crude oil in the first eight months of 2007 soared more than 18 percent to 108.22 billion tons. China brought in 110.4 million tons of crude oil while exporting 2.18 million tons, according to data from the General Administration of Customs.
461 million
The number of mobile users reached 461 million by the end of last year, with an annual average growth rate of 22.3 percent since 2002, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. |