SOARING PRICES: Pictured is a vegetable market in Hainan Province, where the consumer price index grew 6.4 percent in August, the highest nationwide (HOU JIANSEN)

754.64 billion yuan

China's fiscal revenues totalled 754.64 billion yuan ($117.9 billion) in August, up 34.3 percent from a year ago, said the Ministry of Finance.

615

China had established 615 rural financial institutions across the country by the end of June, in an effort to improve rural financial services, said the China Banking Regulatory Commission.