CHINA: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

• China is presently the world’s most populous country with 1,336,280,000 people.
  
• China is world’s 2nd largest by land area.
  
• China has largest border with 22,117 km covering 14 nations (more than any other countries except Russia).
  
• China’s People's Liberation Army with the strength of 2.3 million active troops is the world’s largest Military.
  
• China recently became the world's largest exporter ($130.7bn). China will overtake Japan as the second largest economy in the world by 2010.
  
• China is the largest holder of U.S Treasury with 894.8 billions (dec 2009).
  
• China is one of the permanent Security Council members of the United Nations.
  
• China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with multi cultural diversity.
  
• Communist Party of China with 75,931,000 members, which is considered the world's largest political party.
  
• China has an estimated 926,000 researchers, second only to the 1.3 million in the United States.
  
• China currently has the most cell phone users in the world with over 700 million users in July 2009.
  

But on the other hand:

• Mao Tsetung, the great helmsman of China is on the top of world largest genocide in the human history with 49-78 million.
  
• China, the "factory of the world", is the most polluted country in the world.
  
• China has 20 of the world's 30 most polluted cities
  
• China is one of the top corrupted nations in the world.
  
• China is one of the worst human rights violators in the world.
  
• China's wealthiest 10 percent families make up 45 percent of the total wealth of urban residents whereas 10 percent the families with the lowest income account for only 1.4 percent of the total income of the families in the whole country.
  
• China’s average per capita national income is $3,000 in 2008 despite being the world third largest economy.
  
• China has as many as 10 million active prostitutes at any given time who contribute as much as five percent to the country’s annual GDP as most of the earned income.
  
• China has about 700,000 HIV positive, but less than 50,000 receive antiretroviral treatment.