14 strange facts about China you may not know

1. All pandas in the world are on loan from China, and when a baby Panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China to help expand the gene pool. The baby pandas are shipped back by FedEx.



2. The world's biggest mall is in China.But it has been 99% empty since 2005

 

3. China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world.




4. Twenty million trees are cut every year to meet Chinese demand for chopsticks.




5. China’s 20 richest people have a combined net worth of $145.1 billion, which is larger than Hungary’s GDP.Hungary has a nominal GDP of $133.4 billion.

 

6. China's railway lines could loop around Earth twice. China's railway length, under operation, totals 112,000 kilometers. The Earth, meanwhile,  is 40,075 kilometers in circumference.

 

7. Alice in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China in 1931 for its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals acting on the same level of complexity as human beings. The censor General Ho Chien believed that attributing human language to animals was an insult to humans.

 

8. China is roughly similar in size to the continental U.S. but has just one time zone. Beijing Standard Time is China’s only time zone.

 

9. In two years, China produced more cement than the U.S. did in the 20th century.

 


10. There are already more Christians in China than Italy, and it's on track to become the largest center of Christianity in the world.

 

11. About 8 billion pairs of socks are made annually in China's Datang District, also known as sock city.




12. They have a cellphone lane for pedestrians.





13. China’s Grand Canal is the world’s oldest and longest canal at 1,104 miles (1,776 km) long with 24 locks and around 60 bridges.



14. Over 30 million people in China live in caves called yaodong: that's more than the population of Saudi Arabia.


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