This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time.

The previous figure, released in August, left the city with a population of 7,033,179, a slight decline from 1980.

The highest previous figure, 58 percent, was registered in 1954, after the Korean War.

New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14.

The previous annual high for that figure was just $673 million, in 1987.

That was a 6% increase on previous figures, to which the presenter reacted positively.

It found that more than 220 million Chinese had worked away from home for over six months in 2010, almost double the previous figure.

He could not recall either the previous figures of the number nor yet the division.

It is the same pattern as the previous figure, but the strokes occur at half the rate.

Of the 383 state production plans, 148 had been unable to meet their target - more than double the previous figure of 65.