Posts tagged 中国

预测一：到2025年，中国的大楼面积将是10个纽约

By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities.

“[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.”

Source: Mckinsey, “Preparing for China’s urban billion”

预测二：到2030年，中国城市居民人口的增加量就可以超过美国的整个人口

By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.

“[By 2030] China’s cities will have added 350 million people—more than the entire population of the United States today.”

Source: Mckinsey, “Preparing for China’s urban billion”

事实三：中国的钢铁消费量已经和美国、欧洲、日本的总和相当

China already consumes twice as much steel as the US, Europe and Japan combined.

China is the steel market.

Even in 2010, as developed nation steel demand is expected to rebound, Chinese steel demand will still dwarf all other major economies.

This also means that China drives the seaborne iron ore and coking coal markets as well, as these commodities are key ingredients in steel.

Source: Business Insider, Posco Steel

预测四：如果中国人均石油消费量赶上美国人，那么地球得再有7个沙特阿拉伯才能负担。

If the Chinese, one day, use as much oil per person as Americans, then the world will need seven more Saudi Arabias to meet their demand.

事实五：中国的基督徒已经超过意大利，中国慢慢步向世界最大的基督教中心？

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

09年7月《南方周末》发表了一篇题目为“基督教在中国迅速崛起”的文章，披露美国人对中国基督徒数量的一种估计——约7000万之众——与中国共产党员的总数（7593.1万名）大体持平。

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.

Meanwhile, 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. It’s partly because 16% of Italians are now irreligious.

Moreover, China’s Christian population is set to grow far more rapidly than Italy’s, or even much of the world’s even.

“…is not going to stop China from soon becoming home to the largest Christian population on the globe, says the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, in an excellent and well-balanced article he recently wrote for the Great Britain-China Centre.”

Source: Wikipedia, Shanghaist etc.

事实六：中国人更相信“进化论”（难道世界人民不相信进化论？）

Chinese are far more likely to believe in evolution than Americans.

“Only Russia (48%), USA (42%), South Africa (41%) and Egypt (25%) remained sceptical about the scientific evidence that exists to support Darwin’s theory.

The results also show that a significant proportion of those people surveyed in the USA, South Africa and India (43%) believe that all life on Earth, including human life, has always existed in its current form.

In all other countries, people in China (74%), Mexico (69%), Argentina (68%), Great Britain (63%) Russia, Spain (56%), and Egypt (52%) were of the view that more people thought that life on Earth, including human life, evolved over time either by a process guided by God or as a result of natural selection in which no God played a part.”

Source: British Council

事实七：中美两个网民博客使用情况对比：55%的中国网民写博客，美国则不到一成

Chinese internet users are five times as likely to have blogs as Americans.

美国人民使用率高，中国低的：网上购物、旅行预订、网上银行、在线求职招聘等

中国高，美国低的：写博客、网游、即时消息（如，QQ）、在线音乐。

微微可以总结，中国人民更多使用自我表达、自我娱乐的功能；美国人民更多利用互联网便利原本的生活与工作。

Yet these prolific bloggers are under the watchful eye of an internet police army:

“Although the existence of an internet police force – estimated at more than 30,000 – has been known for some time, attention has previously focused on their work as censors and monitors. Countless critical comments appear on bulletin boards of major portals such as Sohu and Sina only to be erased minutes, or sometimes just seconds, later. In the most recent case, all postings that blamed corrupt local officials or slow-moving police for the deaths of 88 children in floods last Friday were removed almost as soon as they appeared.”

Source: Business Insider, The Guardian

事实八：中国军队人数是美国的1.5倍，外加某些高科技到美国人无法对付的致命武器

China has 150% more soldiers than America does, plus a high tech ‘Kill Weapon’ the U.S. can’t deal with.

申明下这篇东西是外国人写的。

我个人觉得，怎么才1.5倍啊？按人口比例来算，中国13亿人，美国3亿，军队数量也要4、5倍才比较放心嘛

China has about 3.4 million active military personnel compared to America’s 1.4 million. Moreover, in some key spaces, China might even have a tech advantage:

“After years of conjecture, details have begun to emerge of a “kill weapon” developed by the Chinese to target and destroy U.S. aircraft carriers.

“The size of the missile enables it to carry a warhead big enough to inflict significant damage on a large vessel, providing the Chinese the capability of destroying a U.S. supercarrier in one strike. Because the missile employs a complex guidance system, low radar signature and a maneuverability that makes its flight path unpredictable, the odds that it can evade tracking systems to reach its target are increased. It is estimated that the missile can travel at mach 10 and reach its maximum range of 2000km in less than 12 minutes.“

“If operational as is believed, the system marks the first time a ballistic missile has been successfully developed to attack vessels at sea. Ships currently have no defense against a ballistic missile attack.”

Source: U.S. Naval Institute

事实九：中国还解决摆脱不了欧洲中世纪的瘟疫传染

China still hasn’t rid itself of Europe’s medieval plague.

再次申明下这篇东西是外国人写的。

虽然我也为中国在卫生、防疫方面的建设担心存忧，但是用“中世纪”，实在……在SARS、猪流感、禽流感方面，中国还是挺到位的，是吗（不对的，请指正，希望我不是被蒙蔽双眼的）

“[2009:] China has ended a quarantine blockade around a remote northwestern town hit by pneumonic plague, Xinhua news agency reported late on Saturday.

“The outbreak of the highly infectious disease killed three villagers around Ziketan Town in Qinghai province, Xinhua reported. But with no new infections reported for over a week, authorities decided to lift the blockade on the remote town of 10,000 in a heavily ethnic Tibetan area, Xinhua reported. China experiences sporadic outbreaks of the plague, which is typically spread by rodents and fleas and can pass easily between people.”

Some even suspect Chinese animal markets to be breeding grounds for new killer bugs.

“We face similar threats from other viruses and such epidemics can happen because we continue to have very crowded markets in China,” said Lo Wing-lok, an infectious disease expert in Hong Kong.

Source: Xinhua Reuters

事实十：20％中国小企业在金融危机中破产，另有20%徘徊于破产边缘

40% of Chinese small businesses went bust or almost went bust during the world financial crisis.

“According to a report issued last week by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 20 per cent of small businesses had crashed and another 20 per cent went “to the brink of bankruptcy” during the climax of the global financial crisis from October 2008 to March last year.

“According to my research, to date, most of the 20 per cent on the brink of failure have been revived thanks to the recovering economy,” said Chen Naixing, economist and director of the academy’s small business research centre.”

Source: The Australian (Jan 2010)

事实十一：这个就不翻译了，大家看图说话吧。在躲猫猫和最新的“喝开水”事件之后，大家心里也都有杆秤了。关于“Mobile execution vans”也可以查wikipedia。

China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED… and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency.

“[China carries out] almost three times as many as the rest of the world put together, according to the most conservative estimate by Amnesty International. In 2008, the group confirmed 1,718 executions through news reports and public documents, but many others are not reported. Some analysts say the figure may be above 6,000. The exact number is a state secret.”

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.”

Source: The Guardian, USA Today

事实十二：这个也不翻译了啊。强烈推荐大家看《南方人物周刊》年初那期的“番禺力量”，其实民众很无力，他们真的不是要反政府！

China averages 274 protests PER DAY.

“Although there are an estimated 100,000 mass protests in China each year, the vast majority occur in the countryside among desperate and angry peasants, and are quickly suppressed and censored.”

Source: The Telegraph

事实十三：投身中国股市，中国政府“钱”进。

When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai’s top ten stocks are state-controlled arms of the government.

沪交所挂牌的前十大股票中，八家是国资背景：中石油、中国工商银行、中石化、中国银行、申花、中国人寿、交通银行

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

Source: Wikipedia etc.

事实十四：50%的仿冒品来自中国

50% of counterfeit goods come from China.

“China was the main source country for [intellectual property rights] infringing articles with 54% of the total amount.”

“CD/DVD was the top category of articles detained with a total amount of 79 million, which accounted for 44% of the entire amount, followed by cigarettes (23%) and clothing and accessories (10%).”

Source: European Commission Report

事实十五：大多数中国人喝的是被污染的水

The majority of Chinese drink polluted water.

污染是工业化进程中无可避免的，但是类似去年盐城水污染事件直接危及江苏省盐城市几十万市民正常的生活饮用水，造成全城断水，那就很可怕了。

China has 20% of the world’s population but only 7% of global water resources.

To make matters worse, 90% of cities’ groundwater and 75% of rivers and lakes are polluted according to the World Bank.

This means that 700 million people drink contaminated water every day.

Source: Wikipedia, World Bank

还有个额外的Bonus（奖励）信息：最快在2020年中国的GDP会超过美国。

Bonus: Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. as soon as the early 2020s.

“China’s growth will be underpinned by a rapid expansion in emerging market economies, which will account for about 70% of global GDP growth in the coming decade, Deutsche Bank’s Chief Economist for Greater China, Jun Ma, told an investment conference in Hong Kong,”

“By the early 2020s, China will over[take] the U.S. in terms of GDP, Ma said, noting the forecast is dramatically stepped-up from his views two years earlier.”

‘”China’s nominal GDP growth could surpass that of the United States within ten years, a period which will likely be accompanied by a gradual appreciation of the yuan,” Ma said.’

Source: MarketWatch

转自：business insider “15 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind”