Interesting and Shocking Facts About China's Country

1. Chinese man sentenced to death three times more than any other country in the world. There are three times more people were executed in China than in other countries put together, so at least the most recent estimates by the Amnesty International. The agency in 2008 as many as 1718 confirmed the death sentence of news reports and public records, but many more go unreported. Some analysts say the figure may be over 6,000. The actual number of state secret.
Execution is carried out on the streets a lot in a van dubbed the death van designed by Jinguan Motors. They claimed the van and shot execution is more civilized than being shot dead, after all the condemned to die faster, more clinically and safer. According to the replacement of the penalty shoot them with a 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 preparing to hold the Beijing 2008. More than just a pride for China, Beijing Olympics become such an important part of the national consciousness to more than 4,000 babies were named after that great event.
Most of the 4104 children named "Aoyun,"
meaning Olympics, were born around the year
2000 when Beijing was trying to be accepted
to host the sporting event was the summer of
2008. Most of the children named Aoyun are male.



3. Every year in China spend 45 billion chopsticks. 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 thousand trees annually.



4. 200 million Chinese live on less than $ 1 per day. Which belong to the poor in China are citizens whose income is below $ 1.25 per day.
In 1981 the average number of poor residents is 64% of the total population of China. This figure dropped 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. China contributed to 20% of world population, but only 7% of world water resources. Unfortunately again, according to the World Bank, 90% ground water and 75% of urban rivers and lakes are polluted. This means 700 million Chinese drink contaminated water every day.



6. Ice cream and pasta probably first invented in China. Around 200 BC in China has created a kind of frozen milk and rice mixture is to be the forerunner of ice cream. Also in an archaeological excavation site in western China, found 4,000-year-old bowl of noodles, which showed China may first create a paste rather than Italy.



7. More than 50% of counterfeit goods in the European society come from China. As many as 54% of goods that violate copyright circulating in Europe was the main supplier is China. CD/DVD is the first ranking of counterfeit goods that is as much as 79 million copies, meaning 44% of the total number of counterfeit goods, followed by cigarettes (23%) and clothing and knick-knacks.


8. China is still not free from the plague of medieval Europe. In 2009 China put an end to quarantine a city in the northwest who attacked the outbreak of pneumonia (pneumonia).
Explosion of a highly contagious disease that
killed three villagers in the surrounding cities in the province Ziketan Qing-Hai. Outbreaks of the disease was sporadic outbreaks in China,
especially spread by rodents and fleas, as well as easily transmitted between humans.



9. By 2025 China will have to build 10 cities the size of metropolitan New York. Scale and move the Chinese urbanization will continue at a pace that is unprecedented. If such trends persist now, China's urban population will swell from 572 million in 2005 to 926 million in 2025 and will reach 1 billion in 2030. So within 20 years China's urban population will increase by 350 million more than the entire U.S. population today By 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 of these buildings are skyscrapers the equivalent of 10 city of New York.