
Over the week-long National Day holiday:
- Total airline passenger numbers climbed a quarter on the year-earlier period to 3.75 million people, with the record of 540,000 was set on September 30 - the highest number of people to be flying on a single day.
- One million computers were infected with various computer viruses, and 118,000 computers crashed on one day alone.
- Retail sales of consumer goods in China rose 16 percent year-on-year to almost 350 billion yuan.
- Traffic accidents killed 1,171 people, and that's a drop of 43 percent from last year!
- Average pork prices dropped by 0.4 percent, and the average price of live hogs dropped to 13.25 yuan per kilogram.
Photo from Mike Chen
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