Here are 14 mind blogging facts about China
1. There are 78 self-made women billionaires in the world, 49 of them are Chinese.
2. In 1988 China had no single motorway, today 30 years later it has over 150,000km more than any other country in the world! Since 2011, they add 10,000km to the road network every year!
3. China is the largest car producer in the world with over 24M cars rolling off the line in 2017. Japan came second with 8M, UK produced only 1M.
4. Not everyone is allowed to buy a car in China. To get approval, you apply for it in a government lottery in which up to 3M people compete for less than 7,000 number plates in a city like Shanghai.
5. Average waiting time to buy a car in China is 6 years and number plates cost more than the price of the car.
6. By 2025, China will have built enough skyscrapers to fill 10 New York-sized cities.
7. There are over 130 Chinese passenger car brands available more than anywhere else in the world.
8. Wealthy car buyers in China pay far much more for their exclusive ride than their fellow high-rollers elsewhere in the world. In the United States, a Mercedes-Maybach S600 costs Ksh19.8M. In China the very same car goes for 2.88 million yuan, or Ksh45.7M, more than double the U.S. price.
9. China’s economy grew 7 times as fast as America’s over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%)
10. China has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty.
11.Gambling is banned on China
12.Facebook is not in China
13.Google is blocked in China
14.Twitter is not in China