CROSSING THE SEA: A steel box girder of the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Bridge is lifted by a crane on the Hangzhou Bay, east China's Zhejiang Province, on January 13. The bridge is expected to be completed by the end of 2012 (XU YU)

$3.18 trillion

China's foreign exchange reserves topped $3.18 trillion by the end of 2011, down from $3.2 trillion at the end of September, said the People's Bank of China, the central bank.

382

The anti-monopoly bureau under the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has reviewed 382 cases (approving 371, blocking one and imposing conditions on 10) since the country's Anti-Monopoly Law took effect in 2008, according to the MOFCOM. Last year, the bureau reviewed 168 cases.

83.9%

Last year, 83.9 percent of ships built in China were exported, indicating the Chinese shipbuilding industry's heavy reliance on overseas demand for growth, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

5 billion yuan

China National Gold Group Corp., the country's largest gold producer, said its profits surged 57 percent year on year to 5 billion yuan ($791.13 million) in 2011.