RURAL PROSPERITY: A farmer in Mengcun Village of Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region shows off a bumper grape harvest. The added value of Guangxi's primary industry grew 3.9 percent year on year in the first half of 2010 to reach 47.2 billion yuan ($7 billion) (YU XIANGQUAN)

Numbers of the Week

29.1%

Revenues of China's software industry rose by 29.1 percent year on year to 604.8 billion yuan ($89.34 billion) in the first half of 2010, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

71.8 %

Profits of China's industrial enterprises climbed 71.8 percent year on year to hit 1.61 trillion yuan ($237.5 billion) in the first six months, said the National Bureau of Statistics.