Numbers of the Week

151%

Air China Ltd., the country's biggest air carrier, posted a profit of 2.93 billion yuan ($428 million) in the first half of this year, up 151 percent from a year earlier, according to its half-year financial report.

686.2 billion yuan

China's state-owned enterprises logged a combined profit of 686.2 billion yuan ($100.4 billion) from January to July this year, down 22.8 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Finance.