BEAUTY INDUSTRY: A professional dresser is doing makeup for a woman on the 31st China (Jinan) International Beauty, Hairdressing and Cosmetics Expo opened on April 27 in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province. The three-day event attracted more than 400 exhibitors (LIANG ZHIJIE)

Numbers of the Week

345.4 billion yuan

Revenues of China's software industry surged 27 percent year on year to 345.4 billion yuan ($53 billion) in the first quarter of 2011, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

166 million yuan

China Unicom, the country's second largest telecom operator, reported net profits of 166 million yuan ($25.5 million) in the first quarter of 2011, down 86.3 percent from a year ago.