1 bln yuan

Amount of money pledged by the Chinese Government to spend on protecting Sanjiangyuan in 2013. The region serves as the source of the country's three biggest rivers

8.96%

China's liability ratio, or external debt against the gross domestic product, by the end of 2012, far below the international warning line of 20 percent

10 bln yuan

Amount of money recently allocated by China's Ministry of Finance to upgrade rural electrical grids

10%

Year-on-year jump of China's exports in March, with imports soaring by 14.1 percent in the same period

$31.64 bln

M&A transaction value in the Chinese market in the first quarter of the year

204

Number of M&A cases in the first quarter. Of the total, 18 Chinese companies completed overseas M&As with a value of $16.65 billion

$16.62 bln

Value of M&As in the energy and mineral resources sector in the first three months of the year