THINK!DESK China Data Collection 2009/02

25 data from China

THINK!DESK China Data Blog

February 2009

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Millionaires in China (2008):

391,000

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7-Eleven Taiwan sold 50 million cups of coffee since 2004.

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136political parties in Taiwan (2007)

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KFC’s China revenue US$2 billion in 2007

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Obama’s half-brother Mark Ndesandjo helped raise RMB250,000 for orphans in Shenzhen charity event.

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Beichuan government bought 1.1 million RMB Toyota Land Cruiser

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1,000 cheaters busted in national civil servant exam.

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200 people hired to smuggle bird’s nests from HK to Guangdong

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294,000 babies suffered from contaminated Sanlu infant formula (China’s Health Ministry)

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470,000 Tibetan herders to be settled in permanent houses

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China has 350 million smokers - 1/3 of world’s total

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Suicide main cause of death in the age group between 15 and 34 in China

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Between 250,000 and 300,000 suicides a year in China

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500 people injured by poisoned dumplings in January 2008

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9 of every 10 Taiwanese with oral cavity cancer had chewed betel nuts.

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1/3 of Yellow river ‘unfit for drinking or agriculture’

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Thousands of investors bilked out of $416 million in bogus ant-breeding scheme

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54 billion yuan lost due to desertification every year

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19,065 students died

at Sichuan earthquake

(2008)

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15 million workers entering the labor force each year

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Literacy rate at 88,96%

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RMB1.7 trillion as

environmental cost of the use of coal in 2007

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77 applications for permission to hold demonstrations during the Beijing Olympics 2008 - all turned down

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Beijing Olympic Games 2008 cost $2.2 billion - officially

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434 million liters of wine produced in 2007 by Chinese wineries

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All data taken from and more data daily at

http://www.chinadataservice.com

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