Stats about China

1. China is the world's biggest consumer of coal, grain, meat, iron ore, steel and concrete.

2. China use to export oil, but now import half it's oil.

3. 2004 China's share of the textile market in the USA was at 70%, but greater now.

4. China is simply the world's hottest consumer market. 2nd to USA as a consumer nation.

5. IBM PC division was resent bought out by Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd in Beijing.

6. Nine of the Politburo standing committee are engineering graduates.

7. Chengdu attracted 7 billion dollars in foreign capital investment

8. China will soon take over in the USA in buying Nokia cell phones.

9. Internet infrastructure in China is broken down into four geographical areas. Alcatel in Northwestern China, Huawei Tech. in North China, Juniper Networks in South China and Cisco Systems in Middle China plus core backbone routers by Juniper Networks and Edge routers by Cisco Systems.

10. China has 174 cities with more than a 1 million people

11. China's GDP (Gross Domestic Product ) is now second in the world to that of USA, Japan was second but now third. (USA $11,750 Bil, China $7,262 bil, Japan $3,745). stats

12. 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is bring lots of construction and technology to Beijing.

13. The next leading chip maker in the world will be in Shanghai. The 5 year old startup company from Taiwan started a manufacturing branch in Pudong. 3000 engineers left Taiwan to work in China's semiconductor industry.  A photo of WORKER at the Samsung Electronics Semiconductor plant in Suzhou.

14. China graduated 300,000 engineers in 2004

15. 94 million Chinese on the internet in 2005

16. 330 million Chinese use cell phones ref. China Digital Times

17. There are an estimated 1 million electric two-wheelers on Shanghai's streets. The China Bicycle Association, a government-chartered industry group in Beijing, estimates that last year manufacturers sold 7.5 million electric bikes nationwide—nearly double the sales in 2003. Spectrum professional magazine June 2005

18. China's poplulation density is 4.5 tiime the USA. stats

19. China gain approval for WTO September 17, 2001.  IN 2004, three years after its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), in Geneva, and a quarter-century after China began welcoming foreign investment, China's trade volume hit $1.2 trillion, displacing Japan as the world's third largest trading nation, behind the United States and Germany. This milestone is all the more staggering in light of the fact that China's two-way trade, barely $20 billion in 1978, has increased 60-fold since then.

20. China's foreign spending spree in 2004 topped US $500 billion.

21. China now has more than 100 million internet users, making it the second largest internet market after the United States. BBC 11/22/05

22. BBC 1/9/06

23. China now has half a billion mobile phone users, double the number in the US. BBC 8/3/07