FACTS ABOUT CHINA

- China is the world’s most populous country, with over 1.38 billion people, and the second-largest country by land area.

- China has the world’s largest standing army and second-largest defense budget.

- Hundred million people in China live on less than US $1 per day.

- The Chinese New Year celebration lasts for 15 days.

- In China, every year is represented by one of 12 animals.

- Rich people in China can hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence.

- China has recently overtaken the US as the world’s largest economy.

- 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China.

- China has more English speaker than the United States.

- A soup quite popular in China is made entirely out of eatable birds nests.

- Google offers free legal download of music in China, in partnership with the largest record labels in the world since 2009.

- All pandas in the world are on loan from China, and when a baby Panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China to help expand the gene pool. The baby pandas are shipped back by FedEx.

- There is a “cult” offshoot of Christianity in China that believes Jesus is currently living in China as a Chinese woman.

- China is said to suffer from the worst brain drain in the world. 7 out of 10 students who enroll overseas never move back to live in China.

- Pencils are yellow because, in 1890’s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.

- China executes the death penalty more than 4 times as the rest of the world combined.

- China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.

- China is the world’s largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods.

- In Ancient China, soldiers sometimes wore armor made from paper.

- Put together, all of China’s railways line could loop around earth twice.

- In China there is a website that lets you rent a girlfriend for as low as $31 for a week.

- If the population of China walked past you, in a single file, the link would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

- There was a man in China who burned a hole through his stomach because he enjoyed a too hot and spicy soup.

- There is a counterfeit egg industry in China, and one person can make approximately 1500 of them per day.

- Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.

- There used to be fake Apple stores in China. Even the staff was convinced that they were working for Apple.

- Brad Pitt was banned from even entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet.

- In China, over 35 million people still live in caves.

- Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.

- The sunrise in parts of China can be as late as 10 AM because the country joined its five time zones into a single one.

- 78% of software installed in China in 2010 was pirated.

- There’s a bridge between mainland China and Macau, where cars switch from left to right-hand drive and vice versa.

- Every 30 seconds, a baby is born with a birth defect in China.

- Table tennis is China’s national sport.

- The PlayStation is illegal in China.

- By 2020, China could have between 30 million and 40 million men who cannot find wives.

- In China, it is mandatory that cosmetic products are tested on animals.

- In China, you can major in Bra Studies.

- China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.

- Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.

- China used more cement in 3 years (2011 to 2013) than the U.S. used in the entire 20^th century.

- Half of all the world’s pigs live in China.

- Facebook has 95 million users in China despite being blocked.