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Global Times | January 28, 2012 19:25
By Global Times
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70,000 - amount of dumplings sold in traditional dumpling restaurant Huifeng on Xisi street, Xicheng district on Jan. 27, the fifth day or Chuwu of the Spring Festival, also a traditional day to eat dumplings

283,900 - number of people who returned to Beijing on Jan. 27

38% - percentage foreign visitors increased at 11 Beijing parks on Jan. 27, according to the Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks

1.58 million - number of visitors at Beijing’s main scenic spots on Jan. 27, the maximum recorded on any day of this Spring Festival

50 yuan - cost to park cars around Ditan Park for the Spring Festival Temple Fair, according to Beijing News

7 hours - time police took to recover a lost piece of jade worth 30 million yuan after a passenger left it on a plane at Beijing Capital International Airport at 2 am on Jan. 23

1,602 - total number of fire accidents from 8 am Jan. 22, Spring Festival Eve, to 8 am Jan. 23 in China

5,324 - number of fire trucks the fire service dispatched on Spring Festival Eve in China

1,593 microgram/cubic center - the highest point of PM2.5 (particle pollution index) real time density reached from 1 am to 3 am on the first day of the Spring Festival, which was detected around Chegongzhuang area, according to Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center

1,423 tons - amount of firework packaging picked up in Beijing on Spring Festival eve

540 million yuan - amount of consumption on the first day of Spring Festival in Beijing, according to Beijing Commerce Commission

67,000 - number of people praying at the Lama Temple on Jan. 23, the first day of Spring Festival

17 hours - time period Guo Shengyi, the first person praying at Lama Temple, waited outside the temple on Spring Festival Eve

 


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