•1) The Chinese New Year celebration lasts for 15 days.

•2)China’s GDP is estimated at $11,795,297 billion, which

ranks it at number 2 in the world
•3) China has ranked as the world’s biggest exporter of goods
since 2009. Official estimates put Chinese annual exports in the
region of $1.904 trillion
•4) China’s Bailong Elevator carries visitors more than 300m
up a cliff’s edge.
•5) In Ancient China, soldiers sometimes wore armour made
•from paper.
•8) Found in northern China, long-eared jerboas have ears that
are one-third
longer than their heads!
•9) People race boats with dragon designs at a Chinese
festival in the spring.
•11) Put together, all of China’s railways lines could loop
around earth twice!

•12) The mortar used to bind the Great Wall’s stones was
made with sticky rice!
•China is the largest cotton spinner in the world and the textile
industry is also the biggest globally in terms of overall
production and exports.
•The Asia Pacific region is the largest tea producer and China
plays a pivotal role in global tea production.
•The annual production of rice accounts for almost half of the
country’s total grain output.
•China is now emerging as one of the biggest importers of soybeans and
has signed contracts that maintains its commitment to import billions of
dollars of soybeans from the United States.
•China is the largest importer of crude oil in the world and the
annual average of $116 billion per year represents just over
17% of global crude oil imports.