EQUAL FOOTING: Quanzhou, Fujian Province, pushs for a corporate system that allows employees and business owners to jointly decide payments through discussions. This shoe plant is among the enterprises that are implementing the new system (LAI JIANQIANG)

Numbers of the Week

$30.7 billion

Bilateral trade between China and Russia in the first seven months of the year hit $30.7 billion, a 49.6 percent year-on-year increase, said the Ministry of Commerce.

389.6 billion

China's electric power consumption in July reached 389.6 billion kwh, up 13.94 percent from a year ago, said the National Energy Administration.