On May 10, 5:39=A0pm, hab...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(hab****) wrote:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Its the cheap coal that is fuelling China's success and
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> one child policy resulting in huge family savings and investment
>
> excerpt independent.co.uk
> 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 air****ts in the next decade. And
> so on
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 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 air****ts 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
160: the number of nulear power plants China is *planning* to build.
David
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