中國,讓人瞠目結舌的15個數據(圖)

1. Chinese men outnumber women by 39 million -- over ten times the population of Los Angeles, thanks to a distorted male vs. female birth ratio.

（1）在中國，男人多於女人3900萬——是洛杉磯人口的10倍多，多虧那不正常的男女出生比率。

2. China has the world's biggest mall... but it's been 99% empty since 2005

（2）中國擁有世界最大的購物中心……但，自2005年起，這家購物中心99%的商鋪空置。

3. Nearly 10,000 Chinese citizens each year are sucked into unsanctioned 'black jails'.

（3）每年大約有10,000箇中國人送去了未經批准的“黑監獄”。

4. If he spent his ENTIRE YEARLY INCOME on housing, the average Beijing resident could buy 10 square feet of residential property.

（4）一半的北京居民把全年收入用於買房，也只足夠買10平方英尺。

5. Home resales have increased 350% in the past three years.

（5）在過去三年裏，成屋銷售增漲了350%。

6. China's economy grew by 11.9% in the past year and its GDP chart 'has gone vertical':

（6）去年中國經濟增長了11.9%，而GDP圖表呈“垂直”分佈。

7. China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined

（7）中國的豬隻數量，比43個豬肉生產國加起來的還要多。

8. Chinese consume 3 million cigarettes every minute.

（8）中國人每分鐘消費300萬根香菸。

9. 80% of US toys are made in China.

（9）80%的美國玩具製造於中國。

10. Shanghai built 1,500 miles of road in the past decade. That's three Manhattan's worth of streets

（10）過去10年裏，上海修路1,500英里，是曼哈頓街道總長的3倍。

11. China is planning a train system that will link London to Beijing in two days, traveling 200mph.

（11）中國計劃修建一個連接倫敦與北京的火車系統，2天到達，時速200英里每小時。

12. China's enormous Gobi Desert is the size of Peru and expanding 1,400 square miles per year due to water source depletion, over-foresting, and over-grazing. That's 60 Manhattans every year.

（12）中國那遼闊的戈壁沙漠，其面積相當於一個祕魯；由於水源枯竭，過度造林和過度放牧，它正以每年1,400平方英里的速度擴張，相當於每年擴張60個曼哈頓。

13. Sizzling is an understatement for some Chinese property markets -- home prices in Haikou have jumped 54% in the past year.

（13）中國某些房地產市場那沸騰的情況，如此輕描淡寫——去年海口的房價增漲54%。

14. Beijing held the most expensive Olympics ever at a cost of $40 billion. This summer's Shanghai Expo costs even more -- $45 billion.

（14）北京舉辦了史上最昂貴的奧林匹克運動會，花費了400億美元；這個夏天的上海世博會更厲害，450億美元。

15. There are 292 individual languages still spoken in China. This is even more than the 175 languages spoken in the world's melting pot, America.

（15）中國存在292種不同語言，相比美國這個世界大熔爐，也只存在175種語言而已