98%

So far, 490 out of the world's top 500 companies have invested in China and established more than 1,600 R&D centers and regional headquarters, said Gao Hucheng, Vice Minister of Commerce.

648

China has 648 super-rich families with properties worth more than $100 million each, ranking fifth in the world, according to the World Wealth Report released by the Boston Consulting Group.

570 million yuan

A man in Beijing recently won 570 million yuan ($90.48 million), becoming the biggest ever lottery winner on the Chinese mainland.

58.9 kg

Song Wendai, former Chairman of the Qiankun Gold & Silver Refinery Share Co. in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been detained for embezzling 58.9 kg of gold and 1.4 tons of silver.

45,769

China had 45,769 service outsourcing contracts from January to May 2012. The value of the contracts stood at $20.01 billion, and the value of executed deals amounted to $14.59 billion. Among the total, the value of international service outsourcing contracts hit $13.76 billion.

59.9%

From January to May, information technology outsourcing services accounted for 59.9 percent of the total.

$2.73 billion

From January to May, the value of executed outsourcing deals from the United States stood at $2.73 billion.