500,000
Individual tourists (without contracts with travel agencies) from the Chinese mainland with Taiwan in 2013, up 176 percent from 2012
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Forecasted road trips to be made by Chinese passengers during this year's "chunyun," a 40-day period around the Spring Festival, up 5.8 percent from last year. Chunyun is that largest annual human migration in the world
32%
Percentage of natural gas used in China in 2013 that depended on imports
8.2%
Growth rate in profits for China's state-owned enterprises in the first 11 months of 2013 |