National Geographic magazine’s May 2008 issue is devoted to China. Some of the facts from the article:
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 is predicted to be 30 million by 2020.
4. Forty-five 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 caused 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. One in four residents of Beijing is a migrant from the country.
12. China has the world’s largest number of Internet users - 220 million – surpassing the U.S.
13. Authorities have added 171 new pop-culture phrases to China’s national language registry.
14. Thirty-one percent of Chinese 16 or older say they are religious, four times the official estimate a decade ago.
15. The number of cell phones in China has grown from 87 million in 2000 to 432 million today.
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