- According to economists, China will become the world's wealthiest nation by the year 2012.
- China manufactures 60% of the world's bicycles (the United States buys 86% of the world's bicycles).
-The Ch'in Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) buried alive many scholars in its programme to suppress learning and Confucianism. (i know we already know this but i still think its interesting)
(http://www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/2006/Interesting-Facts-China.html)
- Shi Huang-Ti was the first emperor of China and founder of the Qin dynasty. Had he been a European ruler, he would likely be considered great today. The Chinese, on the other hand, have given him a black reputation for his ruthlessness, his massive conscription of labour, his wars, his harsh laws, and his burning of books in 213 B.C.
- Chinese Emperor Shi Huang-Ti built a network of 270 palaces, linked by tunnels, and was ao afraid of assassination that he slept in a different palace each night.
-The first Ming Emperor, Hung Wu, was so afraid of the malign influence of a former ruler's vital force, a force he believed resided in Peiping, the former Yuan Dynasty capital, that he ordered the city leveled, in 1368. But first he had his officials catalogue the beauty and grandeur of the Yuan Great Interior, the imperial palace.
-The story of Cinderella first appears in a Chinese book written between 850 and 860 A.D.
(http://www.sentex.net/~ajy/facts/china.html)

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