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17 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind
震憾你的17个有关中国的事实
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-facts-about-china-2010-12#
For all the crazy stories you’’ve heard about China, the world’’s biggest country is going to keep blowing your mind.
你听过的所有有关中国,这个世界上最大的国家的事情将继续震撼你
The speed and size of economic development going in China right now has never happened before. In just ten years, a small emerging market has transformed into a geopolitical bruiser that can go toe-to-toe with Ben Bernanke.
中国现在的经济发展速度和规模是史无前例的。十年间,一个小新兴市场已经转变成为了地区强者,跟本?伯南克(美联储主席)有得一比。
Like it or not, China plays a critical role in the global economy from here out. Let’’s hope it hope doesn’’t crash.
不管你喜欢不喜欢,在全球经济中,中国是个备受争议的角色。让我们希望它不会崩溃。
1、 China’’s economy grew 7 times as fast as America’’s over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%)
在过去的十年间,中国经济增长速度是美国的7倍(316%增长率对比43%)
2、 China’’s GDP per capita is the 91st-lowest in the world, below Bosnia & Herzegovina
中国的国内人均生产总值世界排名91位,在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那后面
3、 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys
85%的人造圣诞树是中国制造的。80%玩具是中国制造的。
4、 If he spent his ENTIRE YEARLY INCOME on housing, the average Beijing resident could buy 10 square feet of residential property
普通的北京居民花费他所有的年总收入,能买到10平均英尺的房子
5、 China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined
中国拥有的猪,比43个猪肉生产国的总和还要多。
6、 Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second
中国人每秒消费5万支烟。
7、 America’’s fastest "high speed" train goes less than half as fast as the new train between Shanghai and Beijing (150 mph vs 302 mph)
美国最快的高铁,速度比中国上海和北京的新高铁的速度的一半还少 (150 mph vs 302 mph)
8、 China’’s enormous Gobi Desert is the size of Peru and expanding 1,400 square miles per year due to water source depletion, over-foresting, and over-grazing
中国庞大的戈壁沙漠跟秘鲁一样大小,而且每年以1400平均英里的速度扩大,由于水资源的消耗,过度砍伐和放牧。
9、 China has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty
中国所有城市共有6400万空置房子。
10、 The world’’s biggest mall is in China... but it has been 99% empty since 2005
世界上最大的商场在中国…但在2005年起,99%是空的。
11、 Nearly 10,000 Chinese citizens each year are sucked into unsanctioned ’’black jails’’
几乎每年有1万中国公民被非法关进“黑牢”里。
12、 By 2025, China will build enough skyscrapers to fill TEN New York-sized cities
到2025年,中国会建足够的摩天大厦,会形成10个纽约般大小的城市
13、 By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.
到2030年,中国增加的新的城市居民,比整个美国人口还多
14、 There are already more Christians in China than Italy
在中国,基督教徒比意大利还多
15、 Chinese are almost twice as likely to believe in evolution as Americans
中国信仰进化论的人数可能是美国的两倍
16、 China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED... and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency.
中国处决的人数是世界其它国家总和的三倍…他们采用效率高的移动的处决卡车
17、 When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai’’s top ten stocks are government owned
当你购买中国股票时,你基本上就是在为中国政府筹措资金。上海的前10支股票,有8支是属于中国政府的。
Bonus: Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. in less than 15 years
中国的GDP能在未来15年内就会超过美国
So what happens if China crashes?
因此,如果中国崩溃了,会发生什么事?
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