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Number

2008/04/15

341,000

Beijing has 341,000 people whose annual salaries exceed 120,000 yuan (US$16,800) who reported their personal income taxes in the reporting period for 2007, indicating that the Chinese capital has the most high-income earners of any city in the country. 

 

264.16

About 264 kilometres of special traffic lanes will be reserved for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, mainly distributed on the city’s trunk roads like the Second, Fourth, Fifth Ring roads and the Badaling and Airport expressways.

 

43.79 billion

The Beijing Local Taxation Bureau collected 43.79 billion yuan (US$6.13 billion) in taxes in the first quarter of 2008, 11.4 billion yuan (US$1.59 billion) or 35.2 percent more than the same period in 2007.

 

1,300

About 120,000 vehicles joined the fray on Beijing’s roadways in the first quarter of 2008, an average of 1,300 new vehiclesper day. It is estimated that Beijing will have 3.35 million vehicles of all types on its roads by August 2008.

 

2.25 million

Following the Qingming tradition, 2.25 million people in Beijing visited the tombs of their loved ones from March 29 to April 6, 2008, 432,000 more than the same period in 2007.

 

 



 
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