- The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley
- 500 people suffer from sickening or deadly food poisoning each day in China
- One in five of world’s people live in China
- The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ
- In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British
- Many people in parts of China eat insects
- People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar
- People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache
- Slaves under the last emperors of China wore pigtails so they could be picked out quickly
- The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
- China's labor force stands at 706 million people, almost three times that of Europe and twice that of North and South America combined
- The deadliest earthquake of the 20th century occurred in Tangshan, China where an estimated 200,000 people were killed
- Since 1979, China has had a “one-child policy.” Most families are allowed to have only one child, or risk paying steep fines to the government
- The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed
- China has more English speakers than the United States
- In Northern parts of China it was once a common practice to shave pigs. When the evenings got cold the Chinese would take a pig to bed with them for warmth and found it more comfortable if the pig was clean-shaven
- In the 15th century, scholars in China compiled a set of encyclopedia that contained 11,095 volumes
- The largest numbers of immigrants arriving in Canada currently come from China, India and the Philippines
- In 2006, 155,105 people from China who had arrived since 2001 were in Canada. The corresponding figures for India and the Philippines were 129,140 and 77,88
