# China is also known as the Flowery Kingdom, and many of the flowers and fruits in the country, like the orchid and orange, are now grown around the world.
# The Sunrise can be as late as 10 AM in some parts of China because the country joined its five time zones into one.
# The Giant Panda is the national animal of China.
# China is the most populated country in the world with an estimated 1.4 billion residents as of 2019, and the third-largest country by land area.
# 47 percent of the population of China lives in urban areas.
# In China, there are around 459 "cancer villages", small communities in the vicinity of polluting factories where cancer rates soared far above the national average.
# As of 2019, 30 million Chinese people live on less than US$ 1 per day.
# In China, there are still more than 35 million people living in caves.
# One million people live in underground basements and air raid shelters in Beijing.
# China has four megacities with a population of more than 10 million, most of any country.
# If they were countries, Guangdong, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, and Jiangsu provinces of China will be among the twenty most populated in the world.
# Around one million girl fetuses are aborted each year, and tens of thousands of girl babies in China are abandoned due to their one-child policy.
# A baby is born in China every 30 seconds, with a birth defect.
# There are 93 million Wangs in China, this is the country's most popular name.
# Wang, Li, and Zhang are the three surnames that make-up 21 percent of the population in China.
# When a baby loses its first tooth, the Chinese parents either bury the tooth or toss it from their home's roof. That is to make sure the new permanent tooth grows straight and healthy.
# Women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called "Sheng nu" meaning "leftover women" in China.
# By 2020, there could be between 30 and 40 million men in China who cannot find wives.
# 103 nations abolished the death penalty. Notable exceptions include the United States, Japan, and China.
# As the rest of the world combined, China executes the death penalty more than four times.
# In China, 71 percent of people measure success by the things they possess, making it the most materialistic nation in the world.
# There is an "Elderly Rights" law in China that makes it illegal for someone who has parents above 60 not to regularly visit them.
# Some families in China pay for "ghost marriages," hiring a matchmaker to help find a suitable spouse for their deceased loved ones.
# For every home in Beijing the Chinese Government controls central heating.
# If you breathed freely in Beijing for a single day, it would be the equivalent of smoking 21 cigarettes.
# Almost 700 million people in China drink polluted water.
# Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival is held in honor of Qu Yuan, who was once a very heroic man in the history of China. The Chinese race-long skiffs designed to look like dragons are to celebrate his life.
# Red color is a symbol of happiness and that is why it is used so often in festival decorations.
# In China, white is the color of mourning.
# The Chinese people consider number eight as lucky. The reason for this is because the Chinese word "prosperity" sounds similar to it.
# The bats are also considered as a symbol of good luck for the Chinese people.
# The most comprehensive Chinese-language pure linguistic dictionary, documents over 23,000 Chinese head characters and offers more than 370,000 definitions.
# The Chinese language consists of 40,000 characters, and they are supposed to learn 2,000 of those characters by the time children reach fourth grade.
# As of 2019, China has the largest standing army in the world and has the second-largest defense budget.
# Every year China invests more in renewable energy than any other country on earth.
# The Chinese went into space. It occurred when the first Chinese named Zhi Zhigang walked in space on September 27, 2008.
# China surpassed the United States in 2014 as the largest economy in the world.
# Every year, China uses around 45 billion chopsticks.
# China consumed 42.5 billion instant noodle packs in 2011.
# 1 in every 3 socks that you made in the Datang district of Zhuji, China, now called "Sock City."
# The most expensive ever is the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. They cost forty billion US dollars.
# The largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the world is a Chinese government-owned company.
# China is the largest exporter in the world and is the second-largest importer of goods.
# If Walmart was a country it would be the sixth-largest export market for China.
# Chinese company executives can be sentenced to death for committing fraud.
# With 190 billionaires and over 2 million millionaires, China tags in the number of high-net-worth individuals just behind the United States.
# Every five days, China gets a new billionaire.
# Rich Chinese people hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence.
# Chinese railway lines could twice loop around the World.
# In China, the use of wordplay or a pun on advertising or on TV is illegal.
# The majority of the world's tallest buildings are in China.
# Every five days a new skyscraper is being constructed in China.
# In just 19 days, a 57-story skyscraper was constructed in China which has 800 apartments and 4,000 office space.
# The "SkyCity" in China, planned to be the world's tallest building in 2013 with a record-breaking construction period of only 90 days, is now a massive fish pond.
# China is the largest cement producer in the world, producing around 60 percent of the cement in the world.
# In three years (from 2011 to 2013), China used more cement than the United States used throughout the 20th century.
# Marijuana was the first recorded use in China, more than 4700 years ago.
# Almost two-thirds of the Great Wall of China was damaged or ruined.
# The mortar was made of sticky rice that used to bind the stones of the Great Wall.
# The Western Han Dynasty used a lottery about 200 BCE to pay for repairs to and expansion of the Great Wall.
# The lotus was considered a symbol of purity in Ancient China. The peony symbolized the spring, and also known as the king of flowers; the narcissus was believed to bring good fortune, and the chrysanthemum symbolizes long life.
# Legend says that China started in a big flood, around 4,000 years ago. Scientists have found geological evidence that the flood is real.
# In Xi'an, China, a 2,400-year-old soup pot was unearthed in 2010.
# In China from 770 BC to 220 BC currency shaped like knives was in circulation.
# Many Chinese emperors considered themselves as descendants of dragons.
# Dinosaur bones have long been used by villagers in central China as medicine, thinking they were from dragons.
# China proposed to give 10 million Chinese women to the United States in 1973 to boost the U.S. population.
# It is believed that China has the longest continuous civilization in the world, dating back more than 40 centuries.
# During the Tang dynasty, it was expected that people who were educated would say hello and goodbye to all their acquaintances with original poems.
# During the Taiping Rebellion in China, at least 20 million people died, led by a man who claimed to be Jesus' brother and who tried to impose a theocracy based on his interpretation of Christianity.
# Shanghai was the only city in the world during the first half of the 20th century to accept Jews who escaped the Holocaust without an entry visa.
# More than a quarter-century after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Chinese officials still censor information about it.
# In China, 171,000 people died in 1975 as a result of the collapse of the Banqiao Dam, an incident that was hidden from the world until 2005.
# At the age of three the last Chinese emperor, named Puyi, became leader.
# The Chinese name for Winnie the Pooh has been blocked on Chinese social media sites due to people comparing the bear to President Xi Jinping of China.
# The Chinese town of Liqian inhabitants has blond hair and white skin. Historians have speculated that they were the descendants of a lost Roman settlement.
# The Chinese are the single biggest source of income from global tourism.
# The Chinese have also been the first to use the devastating effects of gas in war. They did this 2000 years before it was first used in the First World War.
# Human trafficking is punished with the death penalty in China.
# As a way to deter unwanted male attention, female stockings covered with fake male hair became a fashion sensation in China in 2013.
# A third of women in China have never heard of tampons.
# Chinese female students outperform men to such an extent that a male quota has been introduced at some universities.
# You can do a major in Bra Studies in China.
# Students in China can be sent to prison for seven years for cheating on exams.
# No one on the gaokao, the 9-hour Chinese college entrance exam, ever got a perfect score.
# There is a popular Chinese idiom that states, "The ugly wife is a treasure at home."
# In Hong Kong, for just HK$4,310 (US$ 555) a month, over 300,000 domestic helpers – mostly Filipina and Indonesian women – work up to 18-hour days, six days a week.
# In 2010, 78 percent of the software installed in China was pirated.
# Despite being blocked, Facebook has 95 million users in China.
# In the 2nd century B.C, the Chinese were the first to understand how blood circulates in the body. This is way long before the Europeans.
# China is the largest consumer of red wine in the world.
# The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest man-made Dam. It stretches over the Yangtze River.
# In Harbin, China, 20 robots work at the Robot Restaurant. They are able to deliver food, cook, usher, and entertain diners.
# The word "ketchup" may derive from a Chinese term for the pickled-fish sauce.
# The Chinese invented toilet paper and was only used by emperors.
# The Chinese invented paper, gunpowder, which is a well-known fact, the compass, and the art of printing apart from toilet papers.
# Approximately 3,000 years ago the Chinese invented kites. They were used in battle to frighten out enemies. It was thought that if they were to be purposely let go they would bring bad luck.
# Zhang Heng invented the first monitoring instrument for earthquakes in 130 AD, and it was able to detect and indicate the direction of the earthquake.
# Spitting, yawning, grunting, and burping while eating in China, are normal behaviors.
# A tea leaf accidentally fell into the pot and voilà of the emperor, the beautiful relationship between the Chinese and tea was born.
# By the way, the discovery of silk shares a similar story with tea. It is said that a silkworm cocoon fell into the emperor’s wife's cup of hot tea and thus formed fine threads of silk.
# Canals are invented by Chinese – the Grand Canal of China is 1,103 miles in length and was started in 486 BC.
# The ice-cream invented by Chinese. It occurred as the Chinese poured a combination of soft milk and rice into the snow.
# In A.D 31, the Chinese invented the water wheel, and the Iron plow a long way before the Europeans did it.
# Cricket battling is a popular form of entertainment in China, and crickets are kept by many Chinese citizens as pets.
# A trend in China is to dye pets to look like other wild animals.
# When a baby Panda is born it is shipped to China by FedEx to help expand the pool of genes.
# All of the world's pandas are on loan from China.
# There are about 475 million pigs in China, more than half of the pig population in the world.
# It is mandatory in China for cosmetic products to be tested on animals while it is prohibited in Europe.
# It is estimated that around 600,000 people die every year in China from overwork-related issues.
# The world's tallest woman was Yao Defen (7 feet 8 inches) until her death in December 2012.
# China has mobile "execution vans" for implementing the death penalty without moving to a proper ground of execution.
# In China the term 'censorship' is censored.
# There is a theme park called Dwarf Empire in China where the main attraction is that all the entertainment staff are of short stature.
# China has internet-addict treatment camps.
# In China, the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake was the deadliest recorded earthquake with 830,000 deaths.
# In Chinese mythology, "Nian," a monster, comes out to eat people on New Year's Eve.
# Every year in China is represented by one of twelve animals.
# China is the nation with the largest Buddhist population, about 244 million or 18.2 percent of its total population.
# Only 7 percent of Chinese citizens are religious, making it the world's least religious country.
# On Sunday in China more people go to church than in all of Europe.
# A Chinese Zoo angered visitors in 2013 by trying to pass off a Tibetan mastiff dog as a lion.
# Fried cockroaches are served in China, Thailand, and in some Asian countries.
# In the 1960s, Chinese scientist Tong Dizhou cloned the first fish, but during the Cultural Revolution, the Maoist government forced him to abandon his research to become a janitor.
# A Chinese billionaire purchased a US$ 170 million painting with his credit card in 2015 so that he could use the points for free airfare.
# Thames Town is a replica of the city of London, located in Shanghai.
# There is a bridge between mainland China and Macau where cars switch driving from left to right, and vice versa.
# In 2015, for 10 years of playing games, a Chinese woman who had been missing for a decade and thought dead was found living in an internet cafe.
# China's air pollution increases California's snowfall.
# Nearly one-third of the air pollution in San Francisco comes from China.
# Great Wall of China isn't visible from space, but the air pollution of China is.
# The creator of china's biggest porn website was sentenced to life in prison in 2005.
# The Vatican doesn't recognize China as a legitimate state of the People's Republic of China.
# If you could dig a deep enough hole in China you'd end up either in Argentina or Chile.
# Brad Pitt was banned from China because of his role in the film "7 Years in Tibet."
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