NEW RAIL CORRIDOR: The 377-km Yichang-Wanzhou Railway, linking Yichang of Hubei Province and Wanzhou District of Chongqing Municipality, is expected to come into operation before the end of November. Construction on the railway started in 2004 with an investment of 22.5 billion yuan ($3.4 billion) (YANG SHUN)

 Numbers of the Week

53.5%

Chinese industrial profits rose 53.5 percent year on year in the first nine months of 2010, said the National Bureau of Statistics.

12.3 trillion yuan

The total operating revenue of companies listed on the Chinese mainland totaled 12.3 trillion yuan ($1.8 trillion) in the first three quarters, said the financial data provider Shanghai Wind Information Co. Ltd.