By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities. Source: Mckinsey, "Preparing for China's urban billion"
By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.
China already consumes twice as much steel as the US, 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. Source: Cia World factbook
There are already more Christians in China than Italy, and China is on track to become the largest center of Christianity in the world. Source: Wikipedia
Chinese internet users are five times as likely to have blogs as Americans.
China has 150% more soldiers than America does.
40% of Chinese small businesses went bust or almost went bust during the world financial crisis.
Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. as soon as the early 2020s.