Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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