10 facts about the "China country"

China has executed three times more people than in other countries.
In 2008 alone, there were 1,718 executions, not to mention those which are "silent." Some analysts argue that the figure is about 6,000 people. Many suicide bombers shot down on the road by special cars, which are called "death machine". The Chinese believe this method (as well as the execution by lethal injection) - one of the most humane, since the death in this case comes almost instantly.

China will soon become the largest country on the number of Christians.
Currently, the country has about 54 million Christians, 40 million Protestants and 14 million Catholics.

The Olympic Games in China
In 2008, when China was preparing to host the Olympics, more than 4,000 newborns were named "Olympic Games».
This proves once again that China's Olympics means much more than other countries, taking the Olympics. In the period from 2005 to 2008, 4104 child got the name «Aoyun», which means in Chinese "Olympic Games».

Last year in China uses 45 billion chopsticks.
It is approximately 1, 7 million cubic meters of timber or 25 million full of trees every year.

200 million people in China live on less than one dollar a day.
In China, the high levels of poverty - many people live far beyond its line. In 1981 the poverty rate in China was 64%. Fortunately, by 2004, this figure dropped to 10%.

More than 700 million Chinese are drinking dirty water.
China's population is 20% of the world's population, but its territory is only 7% of the world's natural resources. And given that 90% of groundwater and 75% of rivers and lakes are polluted, it turns out that 700 million Chinese are drinking dirty water.

Ice cream and pasta originated in China.
The frozen mixture of milk and rice was invented in China around 200 BC. e., from her it was a modern ice cream. Also at the site in western China has found a bowl of noodles, whose age is about 4,000 years old. Many consider this evidence that pasta originated in China, but not in Italy.

More than 50% of counterfeit products sold in Europe are manufactured in China.
Probably, this fact does not come as a surprise to anyone. The most abundant species of goods illegally manufactured in China are considered CD / DVD discs (44%), then in this list are cigarettes (23%) and the clothing and accessories (10%).

China can still remain traces of the medieval plague in Europe.
In 2009, China removed the quarantine remote northwestern town where reigned an epidemic of pneumonia. In China, periodically there are outbreaks of infectious disease spread by rodents and lice.

By 2025, China could build ten cities the size of New York.
The scale and speed of China's urbanization is increasing every day. If things go at the same pace, China's urban population by 2025 will reach 926 million people, and by 2030 will be over one billion. In the next 20 years the population of China's cities will increase by 350 million people. By 2025, China will have 219 cities with populations over one million, and 24 cities with a population of over five million people.