China's economic efficiency indicators of ferrous metals mining and dressing in the January-June period of 2005:

sales expenses: 1.34 billion yuan; growth rate: 44.9 percent;

total profits: 6.25 billion yuan; growth rate: 50.6 percent.

The industrial statistics include all state-owned enterprises and the non-state-owned ones with annual sales income over 5 million yuan (602,410 US dollars).

Source: the National Bureau of Statistics