17 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind

China's economy grew 7 times as fast as America's over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%)

China's GDP per capita is the 91st-lowest in the world, below Bosnia & Herzegovina

85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys

If he spent his ENTIRE YEARLY INCOME on housing, the average Beijing resident could buy 10 square feet of residential property

China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined

Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second

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

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

China has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty

The world's biggest mall is in China... but it has been 99% empty since 2005

Nearly 10,000 Chinese citizens each year are sucked into unsanctioned 'black jails'

By 2025, China will build enough skyscrapers to fill TEN New York-sized cities

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

There are already more Christians in China than Italy

Chinese are almost twice as likely to believe in evolution as Americans

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

When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai's top ten stocks are government owned

Bonus: Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. in less than 15 years