9 This Surprising About China

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 1. Chinese man sentenced to death three times more than any other country in the world.
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There are three times as many people were executed in China than in other countries put together, so at least the most recent estimates by Amnesty International. The agency in 2008 as many as 1718 confirmed the death sentence of news reports and public records, but many more are not reported. Some analysts say the figure may be above 6,000. The amount actually withheld state. Execution was carried out on the streets a lot in the van, dubbed van death results Jinguan Motors design. They claimed the execution of the van and shot more civilized than being shot dead, after all, the condemned man to die faster, more clinically and safer. According to the replacement of the penalty shoot them with lethal injection indicates China is now "promote" human rights.

2. More than 4,000 babies in China named "Olympic Games" (Olympic Games), when the country was getting ready to hold the Beijing 2008.
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More than just an honor for China, Beijing Olympics become such an important part of the national consciousness until more than 4,000 babies were named after that great event. Most of the 4104 kid named "Aoyun", meaning Olympics, were born around the year 2000 when Beijing was trying to be accepted to host the sports event was the summer of 2008. Most children who are named Aoyun are male.

3. Every year in China spent 45 billion chopsticks.
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In China, every year, an estimated 45 billion pairs of chopsticks are used and discarded afterwards. It's the same with 1.7 million m3 of timber or 500 thousandtrees each year.

4. 200 million Chinese citizens live on less than 1 dollar per day.
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Which belong to the poor in China are citizens whose income below the 1.25 dollars per day. In 1981 the average number of poor residents is 64% of the total Chinese population. This figure drops to 10% in 2004, means the time span from 1981 to 2004 there were 500 million people who managed to get out of poverty.

5. More than 700 million Chinese drink contaminated water.
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China contributed to 20% of total world population, but only has 7% of world water resources. Unfortunately again, according to the World Bank, 90% urban ground water and 75% of rivers and lakes are polluted. This means 700 million Chinese drink contaminated water every day.

6. Ice cream and pasta probably first created in China.
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Around the year 200 BC in China has created a kind of frozen mixture of milk and rice that become the embryo of ice cream. Also in an archaeological excavation site in western China, discovered 4,000-year-old bowl of noodles, which mungungkapkan China might first create a pasta than Italian.

7. More than 50% of counterfeit goods in Europe comes from the Chinese community.
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As many as 54% of goods that violate copyright circulating in Europe was the main supplier is China. CD / DVD is the first rank of artificial stuff that is as much as 79 million copies, meaning 44% of the total counterfeit goods, followed by smoking (23%) and clothing and knick-knacks.

8. China is still not free from the plague of medieval Europe.
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In 2009 China to end quarantine a city in the northwest who attacked plague pneumonia (pneumonia). Explosion of a highly contagious disease that killed 3 villagers around the town in the province Ziketan Qing-Hai. Sporadic outbreaks of the disease outbreak in China, especially spread by rodents and fleas, and easily transmitted between humans.

9. By the year 2025 China will have to build 10 cities the size of the New York metropolitan area.
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Scale and measures of urbanization of China will continue at a pace that is unprecedented. If the present trend persist, China's urban population will swell from 572 million in 2005 to 926 million in 2025 and will reach 1 billion in 2030. So in the intervening 20 years the population in cities of China will increase by 350 million more than the entire U.S. population today. By the year 2025 China will have 219 cities over 1 million inhabitants. Also to be built 40 billion m3 of floor space in 5 million buildings. 50,000 from the building as a skyscraper - the equivalent of 10 cities of New York.

source: http://www.sayakasihtahu.com/2010/06/9-hal-mengejutkan-tentang-china.html