500 BILLION YUAN (roughly £47 BILLION)
the amount of direct economic losses caused by extreme weather in China in 2010, according to the chief of the National Climate Center.
$36.4 BILLION
the amount of new loans the biggest state-controlled commercial lenders gave out in 2010, much of it for property development.
1.3 BILLION
China’s population.
900 MILLION
the number of mobile phone users in China.
457 MILLION
the number of Internet subscribers in China.
42 MILLION
The projected population of China’s newly-planned ‘mega-city’ – 26 times bigger than the Greater London.
1 MILLION
the number of people living in underground bunkers in Beijing.
1 MILLION
the number of Chinese tourists who visited the US during 2010.
1 MILLION
the number of millionaires in China.
189
the number of billionaires in China.
94%
the literacy rate of people aged 15+ in China, up from 65.5% in 1982.
90%
the amount of China’s groundwater that is polluted.
73 YEARS
the life expectancy of someone born in China, up from 46.6 years in 1960.
70%
the percentage of China’s energy that comes from coal.
41
the number of working (14) and planned (27) nuclear reactors in China.
39
the average age of Chinese millionaires, according to the Wall Street Journal.
10.3%
China’s GDP growth in 2010.
7.2%
Official food price inflation in 2010.
4.1%
China’s unemployment rate as at the end of December 2010.
1%
the percentage of China’s 570 million urban residents who breathe air deemed safe by European Union standards.
