In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress made out of 9,999 red roses for his girlfriend and then proposed - 9 in China means forever
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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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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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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