Its the cheap coal that is fuelling China's success and the
one child policy resulting in huge family savings and investment
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It commissions a new power station about every four days and last year
built as much power generating capacity as the entire output of
France. It plans to build 97 regional airports in the next decade. And
so on
0: Miles of motorway in 1988
30,000: Miles of motorway today
160: Cities in China with populations that exceed a million. In the
USA there are nine; in the UK just two
20: The approximate number of foreign films passed by Chinese censors
each year for screening in cinemas.
95: The estimated percentage of DVDs sold in China that are fake.
Uncensored foreign films are widely available from 50p
30,000: The expected number of Chinese MBA graduates in 2008. The
number in 1998: 0
5.7 million: Students graduated from Chinese universities in 2007
(compared with 270,000 in 1977)
30: Number of nuclear power plants being built in China
500: The number of coal-fired power plants China plans to build in the
next decade
97: New airports to be built in the next 12 years, bringing the total
number to 244 by 2020
540 million: Number of mobile phone users in China, with an increase
of 44 million in the past six months
