MEETING POWER DEMANDS: A worker unloads coal at a port in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, on May 25. Logistics companies in the province have strengthened efforts to transport coal to meet thermal power demands of the upcoming summer peak season (HU GUOLIN)

Numbers of the Week

900.39 million

China's cellphone users grew by 41.39 million in the first four months of 2011 to 900.39 million, covering around two thirds of the nation's population, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

8.88 trillion yuan

China's oil and chemical industry generated 8.88 trillion yuan ($1.35 trillion) in gross output value in 2010, an increase of 160 percent over 2005, said the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association.