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For all the crazy stories you've heard about China, the world's biggest country is going to keep blowing our minds!

That's why I serve one eye catching fact about China every 1st of the month..

Fact 14: China's GDP per capita is the 91st-lowest in the world, below Bosnia & Herzegovina]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=167 Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:24:00 +0000 Facts about China that will blow your mind, Nr. 13. http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=166
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Fact 13: Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. in less than 15 years

GDP Projection

"China's growth will be underpinned by a rapid expansion in emerging market economies, which will account for about 70% of global GDP growth in the coming decade, Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist for Greater China, Jun Ma, told an investment conference in Hong Kong,"

"By the early 2020s, China will over[take] the U.S. in terms of GDP, Ma said, noting the forecast is dramatically stepped-up from his views two years earlier."

'"China's nominal GDP growth could surpass that of the United States within ten years, a period which will likely be accompanied by a gradual appreciation of the yuan," Ma said.'

Source: MarketWatch]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=166 Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:05:00 +0000 Facts about China that will blow your mind, Nr. 12. http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=160
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Fact 12: 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys.

Made in China artificial Christmas trees

Source:
National Geographic China Quiz
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Fact 11: Nearly 10,000 Chinese citizens each year are sucked into unsanctioned 'black jails'.

Black Jail
Black jails emerged following the prohibition of arbitrary detention. They are notorious for prisoner rape, starvation and abuse.

Source: Human Rights Watch]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=165 Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:02:00 +0000 Facts about China that will blow your mind, Nr. 10. http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=164
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Fact 10: China has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty.

Ghost City

Source: Chinese Academy Of Social Sciences]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=164 Sat, 1 Oct 2011 16:48:00 +0000 Despite inflation, China's outlook positive http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=208
China faces pressures of rising prices and capital inflows in the short term, while its economic outlook remains positive, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan has said.

"At present and in the following period, China's economic growth momentum remains relatively strong, but in the short term, China faces challenges of rapid price increases and more capital inflows," Zhou said, according to a statement posted on the website of the People's Bank of China on Sunday.

Zhou added that he believed the Chinese government will properly handle the balance between stable and relatively fast economic development, economic restructuring and inflation expectations. The government will keep consumer prices generally stable and prevent big fluctuations in economic development, he said.

China's economy grew at an annual rate of 9.5% in the second quarter of this year, slower than the 9.7% rise in the first quarter. Inflation rose in August to 6.2% year-on-year, well above the government target of 4% for the year.

Source and more info: WantChinaTimes]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=208 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:18:31 +0000 Facts about China that will blow your mind, Nr. 9. http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=163
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Fact 9: China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined.

Pigs

Source: China Real Time Report]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=163 Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:42:00 +0000 China bans songs by Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys etc http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=206
The ministry said it aimed to regulate the "order" of the Internet music market, adding songs that "harm the security of state culture must be cleaned up and regulated under the law".

The notice, issued on August 19 and posted on the ministry's website, included American singer Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory", "Hair", "Marry the Night" and "Bloody Mary".

It did not explain why the songs were banned but China routinely censors anything it considers politically sensitive or offensive.

While "Bloody Mary" ends with the line "Oh, liberdade, mi amor (Oh, freedom, my love)", "Hair" includes the lyrics "This is my prayer/ That I'll die living just as free as my hair".

Boy-band The Backstreet Boys, American R&B singer Beyonce, Canada's Simple Plan and British pop group Take That all had songs on the list -- the third to be issued by China's government.

Source and more: China bans songs by Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=206 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:15:50 +0000 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Apple smuggling cases increase http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=207
“Water tourists”, a nickname for cross-border travelers who are paid to carry goods for smugglers, are the group of people which had involved in these smuggling cases. Due to Apple who has no information on when the iPad would be officially debut in China, this results the Chinese retailers to get their stocks from Hong Kong through illegal channels, and thus Hong Kong’s retailers employ more “Water tourists” to smuggle iPad into China. Shenzhen Customs has indicated that all smugglers’ iPads are from the gray market, because Hong Kong has not yet officially released the iPad.

Recently, Custom Officials caught Chinese smugglers using a cable to smuggle iPads from Hong Kong to China. They were using a pulley system connected with cable across a 21st floor of building on both sides to transfer iPads illegally, ofcourse their motive was to earn profit and they probably have been doing this for a long time, we don’t know, but what an idea this is. They were not only smuggling iPads but also the iPhones as well.

The iPad and iPhones were transported over a small river that separates the booming city of Shenzhen from the rural northern part of Hong Kong using an elaborate pulley system. The cable was shot across the border using a crossbow and the Apple products were flying across at night, which store in black nylon bags. The cable was suspended to a high-rise building in the Chinese border town of Shenzhen, and goods were moved several hundred meters from a small village house located in Hong Kong.

While China and Hong Kong have their own independent legal tax systems, these smugglers were able to get cheaper iPads from Hong Kong and then make good profits by selling them in China. A 300 meters of cable connected to 21st floor of building on both sides was used to separate the two countries. It took only 2 minutes for iPads and iPhones to travel from one place to another.

50 iPad 2s were seized and six smugglers were arrested during the raid… Die hard iPad iPhone Smuggling




]]> General http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=207 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:06:00 +0000 The rise of fake stores/ retail formats in China (and the world). http://dieter.gulyckers.be/index.php?itemid=204
From Apple stores (as seen in most big Chinese cities, but also elsewhere worldwide, like Quito), to the Scandinavian furniture store Ikea, to a sleepy Austrian village the list of Chinese reproductions is as varied as it is long.

11 Furniture, as the store is known, copies Ikea's blue and yellow colour scheme, mock-up rooms, miniature pencils, signage and even its rocking chair designs. Its cafeteria-style restaurant, complete with minimalist wooden tables, has a familiar look, although the menu features Chinese-style braised minced pork and eggs instead of Ikea's Swedish meatballs and salmon.

This knock-off Ikea store is emblematic of a new wave of piracy sweeping through China. Increasingly sophisticated counterfeiters no longer just pump out fake luxury handbags, DVDs and sports shoes but replicate the look, feel and service of successful Western retail concepts — in essence, pirating the entire brand experience.

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