Interesting

National Geographic magazine’s May 2008 issue is devoted to China! I thought I would share some of the facts in this issue. If you have a chance go and pick it up!

1. China’s one child policy created a generation of only children that numbers 90 million.
2. 119 baby boys are born for every 100 girls.
3. The number of unmarried young men – called bare branches – is predicted to be 30 million by 2020.
4. 45 percent of Chinese women surveyed say they do not want to give up their careers to get married.
5. Three in ten Chinese families have grandparents living in the same household.
6. Beijing enforces a one-dog policy that prohibits pets more than 14 inches high.
7. China is expected to overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy in ten years
8. China has the world’s highest number of annual deaths triggered by air pollution
9. Urban Chinese earn more than three times as much as those in rural areas, the highest income gap since the start of reforms in 1978
10. Public protests rose by 50 percent last year.
11. On in four residents of Beijing is a migrant from the country.
12. 67percent of millionaires surveyed say they are sacrificing health for money.
13. China has the world’s largest number of Internet users - 220 million – surpassing Web surfers in the U.S.
14. Authorities have added 171 new pop culture phrases to China’s national language registry.
15. Cell phones in China have grown from 87 million in 2000 to 432 million.
16. Today31 percent of Chinese 16 or older say they are religious, four times the official estimate a decade ago.