China is the world's most populous country, with

over 1.38 billion people, and the second-largest country by land area.

China has the world's largest standing army and second-largest defense budget.

100 million people in China live on less than $1 per day.

China executes the death penalty more than 4 times as the rest of the world combined.

China is the world's largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods.

About 700 million Chinese people

drink contaminated water.

The Sunrise in parts of China can 

be as late as 10 am cause

the country joined its five 

time zones into a single one.

There's a bridge between mainland China and Macau, where cars switch from left to right-hand drive and vice versa.

Table tennis (ping-pong) is China's national sport.

The PlayStation is illegal in China.

By 2020, China could have between 30 million and 40 million men who cannot find wives.

A new skyscraper is built in China every five days.

The word 'censorship'

is censored in China.

China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.

Dyeing pets to look like other wild animals is a trend in China.

Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.

In 1973, China proposed to give 10 million Chinese women to the USA to boost its population.

In 2013, a zoo in China angered visitors by trying to pass off a Tibetan mastiff dog as a lion.

When a baby Panda is born, it's shipped by FedEx to China to help expand the gene pool.

China overtook the USA as the world's largest economy in 2014.

In China, it's illegal to use a wordplay or a pun in advertising or on television.

20 million 20-year-old trees are cut down in China every year to make chopsticks.

Just 7% of people in China are religious, making it the least religious country in the world. Thailand has the most with 94%.

All pandas in the world are on loan from China.

Air pollution in China increasessnowfall in California.

has 95 million users in China despite being blocked.

The Vatican does not recognize the People's Republic of China as a legitimate state of China.

It is estimated that about 600,000 people die in China each year from issues related to overwork.

In China, there is an "Elderly Rights" law which makes it illegal for anyone who has 

parents over 60 not to visit them regularly.

Brad Pitt was banned from

China for his role in the movie '7 Years in Tibet'.