October 2007: Beijing in numbers
A few glimpses of life in Beijing and China in October 2007: events large and small. Please take part in the attached poll. 3,000,000 calls reached the Olympic ticket hotline...
A few glimpses of life in Beijing and China in October 2007: individual events, prominent and less so. Please take part in the attached poll.
3.000.000
That many calls reached the Olympic ticket booking hotline (+86-10-952008) between 9 and 10 a.m. on October 30, 2007. Overload forced ticket sales to stop by noon. Various sources (China Daily or the Beijing Olympic organizing group) say the official ticket booking website recorded an average of 200,000 requests per second (China Daily) or per minute (the organizing group) during the first hours of booking. Of the first 9,000 ticketssold between 9 and 11 a.m., 98% were bought online or at authorized Bank of China branches. This implies that only about 180 tickets were sold through the hotline. Organizers apologized for «technical problems», said buyers would receive their tickets, and promised to fix the website by November 5. The official ticketing site currently looks like this.
30
This is the percentage increase in subway passengers since fares were reduced following the opening of Line 5 on October 7 this year.
330
This is the height, in meters, of Beijing’s tallest building. Tower III of the China World Trade Center in Beijing (Guomao Sanqi), under construction at the corner of the East Third Ring Road and Guanghua Road, has reached its full height. Although construction will not finish until mid-2009, it reached that height at 10:50 a.m. on October 29, 2007. With 74 floors above ground and four below, the tower will house offices, a five-star hotel and a supermarket. The design was officially approved in August 2002, but construction did not begin until June 2006.
555
This is the passenger capacity of the new Airbus A380 superliner that landed at Beijing Capital International Airport on Friday, October 26. Reports saythe aircraft was unable to take VIP passengers on a trial flight because of heavy fog over Beijing that Friday. Here you can watch a video posted on Youtube.
561
Beijing’s subway network will total 561 kilometers in 2015. Once its «three circular, four horizontal, five vertical and seven radial» lines open, Beijing will overtake New York in the length of the longest subway line.
3.216
This many Chinese men are named "奥运", meaning «Olympics». Will the comparable female name be revived in Russia by 2014, I wonder?
3.000.000
That many calls reached the Olympic ticket booking hotline (+86-10-952008) between 9 and 10 a.m. on October 30, 2007. Overload forced ticket sales to stop by noon. Various sources (China Daily or the Beijing Olympic organizing group) say the official ticket booking website recorded an average of 200,000 requests per second (China Daily) or per minute (the organizing group) during the first hours of booking. Of the first 9,000 ticketssold between 9 and 11 a.m., 98% were bought online or at authorized Bank of China branches. This implies that only about 180 tickets were sold through the hotline. Organizers apologized for «technical problems», said buyers would receive their tickets, and promised to fix the website by November 5. The official ticketing site currently looks like this.30
This is the percentage increase in subway passengers since fares were reduced following the opening of Line 5 on October 7 this year.
330
This is the height, in meters, of Beijing’s tallest building. Tower III of the China World Trade Center in Beijing (Guomao Sanqi), under construction at the corner of the East Third Ring Road and Guanghua Road, has reached its full height. Although construction will not finish until mid-2009, it reached that height at 10:50 a.m. on October 29, 2007. With 74 floors above ground and four below, the tower will house offices, a five-star hotel and a supermarket. The design was officially approved in August 2002, but construction did not begin until June 2006.555
This is the passenger capacity of the new Airbus A380 superliner that landed at Beijing Capital International Airport on Friday, October 26. Reports saythe aircraft was unable to take VIP passengers on a trial flight because of heavy fog over Beijing that Friday. Here you can watch a video posted on Youtube.
561
Beijing’s subway network will total 561 kilometers in 2015. Once its «three circular, four horizontal, five vertical and seven radial» lines open, Beijing will overtake New York in the length of the longest subway line.
3.216
This many Chinese men are named "奥运", meaning «Olympics». Will the comparable female name be revived in Russia by 2014, I wonder?
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