The numbers making news during the week of September 3, 2012

1,500 to 20,000 yuan
The price companies in Beijing and Shanghai are charging to get a visa for foreigners who can’t meet a work visa’s legal requirements. China Daily

$26.47 billion
Worth of solar panels and components China sold to the European Union in 2011 - about 60 percent of all Chinese exports of the product. Reuters

$400 billion
The Chinese steel industry’s debt burden by the end of last year. Reuters

14 Percent
Proportion of couples in southern Guangdong who cannot conceive a child. This is proving problematic as the province only has one sperm bank for its 104 million people. Time

29 Percent
The amount rent is expected to increase in 2012 on Beijing’s prime office space. China Daily

3-and-a-half years
Prison sentence for “unintentional homicide” handed to the driver that killed Wang Yue last October in Foshan. BBC

8 years
Length of time a corrupt bank manager hid in a cave while on the run from the law. The Telegraph