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来源17 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind
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For all the crazy stories you’ve heard about China, the world’s biggest country is going to keep blowing your mind.
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.
Like it or not, China plays a critical role in the global economy from here out. Let’s hope it hope doesn’t crash.
中国，这个世界上最大的国家，时不时发生些神奇的故事，总会让你大开眼界。
中国经济的发展速度和规模前所未有，短短的十年内，这个微弱的新兴市场已经成长为能和美国相对抗的地理政治巨人。
不管你喜不喜欢，中国在世界经济中举足轻重，如果它崩溃了，大家都没好处。
China’s economy grew 7 times as fast as America’s over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%)
过去十年中中国经济增长速度是美国的7倍，数据分别是316%和43%。
China’s GDP per capita is the 91st-lowest in the world, below Bosnia Herzegovina
中国人均国民生产总值世界排名倒数91，比波黑还少。
85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys
85%的人造圣诞树和80%的玩具产于中国
If he spent his ENTIRE YEARLY INCOME on housing, the average Beijing resident could buy 10 square feet of residential property
一年的全部收入都用来买房的话，普通北京市民能买到10平方英尺（约0.9平方米）。
Obviously he can’t spend his entire income on housing…
A square meter of residential property in Beijing costs an average of 26,000 yuan (US$3,800), but the average per capita monthly income is only 2,000 yuan, according to Asia Times.
很明显，他不能不吃不喝。亚洲时代周刊说，北京房产的均价为每平方米26000元，人均月收入仅为2000元。
China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined
中国生猪数量世界第一，超过排名第二到第44共43个国家的总和。
Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second
中国人每秒消耗5万根香烟。
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还不到京沪高铁新列车的一半，速度分别是150和302迈。（译者：1 mph = 1.609344 km/h ）
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
中国的戈壁滩沙漠面积相当于秘鲁整个国家，并且因为水源耗竭、过度砍伐和过度放牧以每年1400平方英里的速度扩大。（译者：大概540多万亩）
China has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty
中国有6400万套闲置房，包括空无一人的整个城市。
The world’s biggest mall is in China… but it has been 99% empty since 2005
中国有世界最大的商场…可惜2005年以来99%的店铺都是空的。
Nearly 10,000 Chinese citizens each year are sucked into unsanctioned ‘black jails’
每年有接近一万中国人被关进非法的“黑监狱 ”。
By 2025, China will build enough skyscrapers to fill TEN New York-sized cities
2025年前，中国修建的摩天大楼足以填满10个纽约。
“[By 2025,] 40 billion square meters of floor space will be built — in five million buildings. 50,000 of these buildings could be skyscrapers — the equivalent of ten New York Cities.”
“2025年前，中国会新建总面积达到400亿平方米的500万建筑物，。其中有5万会是摩天大楼- 相当于十个纽约。“
By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.
2030年以前，中国新增城市居民数量超过全美国人口。
“[By 2030] China’s cities will have added 350 million people—more than the entire population of the United States today.”
”2030年以前，中国城市会新增3.5亿人口 – 比现在美国的总人口还多。“
There are already more Christians in China than Italy
中国基督教徒人数已经超过意大利
Due to the extremely rapid expansion of Christianity in China, there are now an estimated 54 million Christians in the country, comprised of about 40 million Protestants and 14 million Catholics.
基督教在中国发展迅速，估计全国现有5400万基督徒，其中有4000万新教徒和1400万天主教徒。
Italy has just 60 million people in total, of which only 79% are Christian these days. Which means Italy has 47.4 million Christians, a full 12% less than China.
意大利总人口只有6000万，其中现仅有79%为基督教徒。也就是说意大利有4740万基督教徒，整整比中国少了12%。
Chinese are almost twice as likely to believe in evolution as Americans
中国人相信进化论者的比例比美国人高一倍
An impressive 74 percent of Chinese believe in evolution, better than Mexico (69%), Argentina (68%) and Great Britain (68%) Only Russia (48%), USA (42%), South Africa (41%) and Egypt (25%) remain skeptical about Darwin’s theory.
多达74%的中国人相信进化论，比例高于墨西哥（69%）、阿根廷（68%）和英国（68%）。
只有俄国（48%）、美国（42%）、南非（41%）和埃及（25%）仍对达尔文的进化论持怀疑态度。
China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED… and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency.
China carried out at least 1,718 executions in 2008, three times as many as the rest of the world, according to Amnesty International. Some analysts put the yearly figure closer to 6,000.
Many executions are done on the road using vehicles such as those designed by Jinguan Motors:
“Makers of the death vans say the vehicles and injections are a civilized alternative to the firing squad, ending the life of the condemned more quickly, clinically and safely. The switch from gunshots to injections is a sign that China “promotes human rights now,” says Kang Zhongwen, who designed the Jinguan Automobile death van in which “Devil” Zhang took his final ride.”
中国每年处死人数为其他国家总和的三倍，为提高效率使用流动处决车
中国在2008年至少处决了1718人，为其他国家总和的三倍，一些分析家认为年度数据接近6000人。
很多人就在路上的处决车内被处决了，该车由金冠汽车设计。
“行刑车的制造商称：车辆内注射行刑是比枪决更文明的代替方法，处决过程更迅速、可靠和安全。从枪毙到毒针的转变是中国“正在改善人权”的一个标志，” – 金冠汽车死刑车设计者康忠文（音译）。
When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai’s top ten stocks are government owned
Eight of the ten largest stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange are nothing but state-controlled companies:
·PetroChina
·Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
·Sinopec
·Bank of China
·China Shenhua Energy Company
·China Life Insurance Company
·Bank of Communications
买中国股票基本等于给政府送钱。沪市排名前十的股票中有八只为国有企业
沪市排名前十的股票中有八只为国有企业
中石油
中国工商银行
中石化
中国银行
中国神华能源股份有限公司
中国人寿保险公司
中国交通银行
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