In 2009 China produced:

• 67,653,000 LCD TVS
• 59,305,000 Refrigerators
• 22.3 Trillion cigarettes
• 619,245,000 mobile phones
• 13,212,000 Tons of Sugar
• 13,795,000 motor vehicles
• China exports:
• $28 billion worth of shoes
• $39.6 billion worth of mobile phones
• $107.1 billion worth of clothing
• One of every three cigarettes consumed around the world is smoked in China
• Over half of Chinese men over the age of 15 are smokers, compared with 2.4% of women.
• China has over half a billion pigs, China is the world’s largest pork consumer and producer. It has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined.
• Bhutan doesn’t have diplomatic relations with China.
• China—the world’s sixth largest wine producer—will be the world’s top producer by 2058, according to Berry Bros & Rudd (BBR) “Future of Wine” report. The report also predicts that in 50 years, China will “rival the best of Bordeaux.”
• China is the world’s largest steel producer. In 2009, China’s steel industry produced 567 million metric tons of crude steel, which represented 46.3% of the world’s total output.
• Over 100 million people in China are obese
• An estimated 79% of China’s computers run on pirated software
• By 2025, China will have an estimated 221 cities with a population of a million or more. There are currently 165.
• Of Shenzhen’s population of more than 14 million people, only 2.5 million are residents. The other are migrant workers.
• China will build enough skyscrapers to fill TEN New York-sized cities by 2025.
• “[By 2025,] 40 billion square meters of floor space will be built…requiring the construction of between 20,000 to 50,000 new skyscrapers (buildings of more than 30 floors) — the equivalent of ten New York Cities.” { McKinsey & Co. report “Preparing for China’s urban billion” March 2009 }
• China now has more billionaires than any country apart from the US.
• Chinese millionaires are on average 15 years younger than their overseas peers.
• Over half of the world’s top 20 richest self-made women are Chinese, including the top three richest. { The Economist online “The Great Wealth of China” Oct. 13, 2010 }
• Every day 45,000 people are injured and 680 killed on China’s roads

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