China

                                   

                                   

               你好 China

OMG! facts about China

• People’s republic of China is the world’s most populous country, population over 1.37 billion
• Second largest state by land areas
• Capital is Beijing
• Dialling Code +86
• World’s largest standing army and second largest Defense budget 

• 100 million people in china live on less than US$1 per day
• China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year 

• World’s largest exporter and Second largest importer of goods
• Over 35 million people still live in Caves
• The sunrise in parts of China can be as late as 10AM because the country joined it’s five time zones into a single one
• Every 30 seconds a baby is born with a birth defect
• Table Tennis is China’s national sport
• Play station is illegal in China 

• By 2020, china could have between 30 million and 40 million men who cannot find wives
• China has treatment camps for internet addicts
• Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in china
• Half of all the world’s pigs live in China
• The first recorded use of Marijuana was in China, over 4700 years ago
• 20 million 20 years old trees are cut down in China every year to make chopsticks
• All pandas in the world are on loan from china 

• Facebook has 95 million users in China despite being blocked
• Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in china since 2009 

• Largest population of Buddhists, approximately 244 million or 18.2% of its total population
• World’s largest producer of cigarettes is a company owned by the Chinese government
• China is the world’s largest consumer of red wine
• Three surnames Wang, Li and Zhang make up for 21% of the Chinese population
• Chinese students can get 7 years in jail for cheating on exams 

• 1 in every 3 socks you have were made in the district of Datang in Zhuji, China, now known as “Socks City”