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# 15 Facts About China that Will Blow Your Mind
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/15_facts_about_china_2303100759/
- Published: 2010-03-23T07:57:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:06:56.000Z
- Description: A Mercola list of claims drawn from Business Insider about China, among them ten New York-sized cities by 2025, steel consumption twice that of the U.S., Europe and Japan combined, more executions than the rest of the world together, and 274 protests a day.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Miscellaneous, Health News, #vivvo-import

Posted by [Dr. Mercola](http://articles.mercola.com/members/Dr.-Mercola/default.aspx?ref=foodconsumer.org) | March 23 2010

- By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities.
- By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.
- China already consumes twice as much steel as the U.S., Europe and Japan combined.
- If the Chinese, one day, use as much oil per person as Americans, then the world will need seven more Saudi Arabias to meet their demand.
- There are already more Christians in China than Italy, and China is on track to become the largest center of Christianity in the world.
- Chinese are far more likely to believe in evolution than Americans.
- Chinese internet users are five times as likely to have blogs as Americans.
- China has 150 percent more soldiers than America does -- plus a high tech 'Kill Weapon' the U.S. can't deal with.
- China still hasn't rid itself of Europe's medieval plague.
- Forty percent of Chinese small businesses went bust or almost went bust during the world financial crisis.
- China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED -- and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency.
- China averages 274 protests PER DAY.
- When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai's top ten stocks are state-controlled arms of the government.
- Fifty percent of counterfeit goods come from China.
- The majority of Chinese drink polluted water.

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[Business Insider February 23, 2010](http://www.businessinsider.com/15-facts-about-china-that-will-blow-your-mind-2010-2?ref=foodconsumer.org#by-2025-china-will-build-ten-new-york-sized-cities-1)