What You Didn’t Know About China:

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

OWNERSHIP OF MAJOR DURABLE CONSUMER GOODS

Item 2000 2010
Motorcycle 18.8 22.51
Washing Machine 90.50 96.92
Refrigerator 80.10 96.61
Color TV 116.60 137.43
Hi-Fi 22.20 28.08
Camera 38.40 43.70
Air Conditioner 30.80 112.07
Computer 9.70 71.16
Video Camera 1.30 8.20
Microwave 17.60 59.00
Mobile Phone 19.50 188.86
Car 0.50 13.07

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