In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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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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If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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