5 Amazing Things You Don,t Know About China

1. By 2025 China Will Build 10 New York sized Cities - The scale & pace of china urbanization promises to continue at an unprecedented rate. By 2025 China will have 219 cities with more than 1 million inhabitant- compared with 35 in Europe today. Also, 40 billion sq. meters of floor space will be built in 5 million buildings. 50,000 of these buildings could be skyscrapper -- equivalent to 10 N.Y City...

2. 200 million people in China live on Less Than 1$ per Day - Poverty in China refers to the people whose income is less than a poverty line of 1.25$ per day. The poverty rate in China in 1981 was 64% of the population. Fortunately, this rate declined to 10% in 2004, indicating that abt 500 million people have climbed out of poverty.

3. China Executes Three Times As Many People As The Rest Of The World - According to the most conservative estimate by Amnesty International. In 2008, the group confirmed 1,718 executions through news reports and public documents, but many others are not reported. Some analysts say the figure may be above 6,000. The exact number is a state secret.

4. There Are Already More Christian in China Than in Italy - Due to the extremely rapid extension of Christianity in China there are now an estimated 54 millions Christians in China .Italy has just 60million people in total.

5. Over 4000 Babies in China were Named " Olympic Games" While The Country Was Getting Ready For Beijing 2008. - The rise in popularity of the name is seen as a sign of support for the Games being staged in August in Beijing.Officials in charge of identity cards say that more than 92% of the 4,104 registered Aoyuns(olympic) are boys.

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Google Chrome extensions officially launched

Google has launched the official gallery of Chrome extensions late Tuesday, putting one of the key missing pieces of the browsing puzzle into place. If you’re on a developer Chrome version, you can now take advantage of built-in extensibility to customize the browser with dozens of third-party extensions. Google claims Chrome extensions are as easy to create as webpages. Users can install and uninstall them quickly without restart, and they sport a great polished look that fits in with Chrome’s minimalist aesthetic, the search company said.

Note that extensions aren’t quite ready in beta, let alone stable Chrome versions. Nevertheless, it’s clear this will be a headline feature in the next Chrome update. Google’s product manager Brian Rakowski wrote in a blog post that extensions won’t tax the browser’s performance and jeopardize users’ security due to a clever design:

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The Twoddler is a Twitter interface for toddlers

Let’s face it: for the most part, you don’t even really care “What’s happening?” on Twitter in the lives of your closest friends. 140 characters doesn’t really give a lot of room for strong opining, philosophical reverie or deep musing. It is, mostly, a perfect length to allow people to express their love for their cats, their annoyance with “haters,” their expression of annoyance at a stray sock, and other bovine and contentless utterances.

But you know who Twitter would be perfect for? A demographic that does nothing but make bovine and contentless utterances! So it’s worth noting, at least to laugh, that a team in Belgium has developed a new way for gummy, drooling neonates to use Twitter.

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