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10 Things You Didn't Know About China
1 In 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer Games, over 4000 babies in China were named 奧運 (Aoyun) “Olympic Games”.
2 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day Poverty in China refers to people whose income is less than a poverty line of $1.25 per day.
3 By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities. The scale and pace of China's urbanization is continuing at an unprecedented rate.
4 But China also has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty. These are called ghost cities.
5 Before the Communists took control of China in 1949, the country had five time zones. Today, China only has one time zone: Beijing time
6 Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC. The first ice cream was soft milk and rice mixture packed in the snow.
7 Some restaurants have plates, bowls, cups, and spoons sealed in plastic to indicate it's sanitized. If you unwrap it you will be charged a fee.
8 China saw 180,000 protects, riots, and mass demonstrations in 2010 alone. That's about 500 protects every day.
9 Over 30 million Chinese people still live in caves 窰洞 (Yaodong). Most of these cave dwellers live in Shanxi province and prefer it there.
10 Traditionally, Chinese babies wear 開襠褲 “kaidangku” (literally “open-crotch pants”) instead of diapers. So it's convenient for the kid to 'go'.