A few Facts about China that may Blow Your Mind

September 17, 2012

From Business Insider, comes 15 Facts (actually 17) About China that will Blow Your Mind. Here are five of them. Visit Business Insider to see the rest and the details.

1. By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities.

Shanghai river waterfront

2. China already consumes twice as much steel as the US, Europe and Japan combined.

3. If the Chinese, one day, use as much oil per person as America, then the world will need seven more Saudi Arabias to meet the demand.

Note:  Another reason why China NEEDS to go Green with their power. See my piece about this topic at China Going Green. The growing crises with industrial pollution linked to oil is another reason.

4. Chinese Internet users are five times as likely to have blogs as Americans.

5. Chinese GDP (Gross Domestic Product) could overtake the U.S. as soon as the early 2020s.

Bonus Fact: The Chinese plan to have a permanent space station before 2020, walk on the moon by 2025 and a manned mission to Mars by 2040-2060.

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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of The Concubine Saga. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too. This is the love story Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover.

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Earning Honor by Going to the Moon

June 14, 2011

It looks as if China’s space program will fuel humanity’s next trip to the moon and beyond. The Middle Kingdom has everything needed to succeed. Why is this?

China is turning out more engineers from its universities than the United States is, and China has the technology and industry to support an active, growing space program.

China isn’t crippled by the deficit (debt) the US has.

China’s nine-man Politburo Standing Committee, the country’s top ruling body, are engineers instead of lawyers or businessmen like in America.

In the last few years, China has sent men into space and conducted space walks. There is a strong chance that in a few more years, there will be Chinese space stations orbiting the earth with footprints on the moon that were not made by Americans.

In fact, China plans to send a lunar probe with a rover to the moon in 2013. Source: The Next Big Future

My wife and I were in China in 2008 when one of the space walks took place, and it was big news filling TV screens and splashing headlines across newspapers. It was easy to sense the pride.

The excitement was equal to the time Americans walked on the moon decades ago. Now, America’s space program is limping along—almost a cripple.

To send supplies to the international space station, the world (except China) depends on Russia.

The honor China lost during the 19th and early 20th centuries to the bully tactics of aggressive Western powers and Japan during World War II is being reclaimed.

For more than two thousand years, China was a regional super power. They have achieved that status again.

Discover Mao’s War Against Illegal Drugs

This revised post first appeared on February 17, 2010 as Growing Great Honor in One Lunar Leap

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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.

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China Moves Toward Orbit and Beyond

September 30, 2010

The next Star Trek movie may have an all Chinese crew from the CNSA (Chinese National Space Agency), as China becomes the dominate nation in outer space.

The New York Times reports that President Obama called on NASA to cancel the program that was to return humans to the Moon by 2020, which means America will not be starting a space race with China.

In fact, President Obama has called on China and the U.S. to cooperate in outer space. Something no other U.S. President has asked before. When the current International Space Station started construction in 1998, China was not included.

The crippled U.S. space program suggests that America has no choice but to cooperate or else cede the frontier of space to the Chinese.

Senior Chinese space officials recently announced that China could be on the moon by 2022. To reach the moon, plans are to put three different space stations into Earth orbit by 2011, then 2015 and the largest station by 2020, which will lead to the moon. Source: Washington Times.com

It is feasible that China could be on the moon by 2017 and after that, China plans to go where no man or woman has gone before — Mars and Venus. Source: KotZot.com

Shanghaiist.com reports that, “Scientists predict that one of China’s most significant achievements in the 21st century will be to set up a “moon city” using solar energy. The surplus energy will then be transmitted to storage centers back on earth.”

If this works, China’s hunger for electricity may be met without the need for coal burning power plants, which means cleaner air.

Meanwhile, the Arms Control Wonk says that China’s leaders remain silent about the military applications of China’s space programs, which will cause many Sinophobes to lose sleep.

This is ironic, since the Chinese invented multi-stage rockets around the 14th century.

See Adding to Honor in One Lunar Leap

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Growing Great Honor in One Lunar Leap

February 17, 2010

It looks like China’s space program will fuel humanity’s next trip to the moon and beyond. The Middle Kingdom has everything needed to succeed. China is turning out more engineers from its universities than the United States is, and China has the technology and industry to support an active, growing space program.

It helps that seven of China’s nine-man Politburo Standing Committee, the country’s top ruling body, are engineers instead of lawyers or businessmen like in America. In addition, China has trillions of dollars to spend and no national debt.

In the last few years, China has sent men into space and conducted space walks. There is a strong chance that in a few more years, there will be Chinese space stations orbiting the earth with footprints on the moon that were not made by Americans.

We were in China when the space walks took place, and it was big news filling TV screens and splashing headlines across newspapers. The excitement was equal to the time Americans walked on the moon decades ago. Now, America’s space program is limping along—almost a cripple.

The honor China lost during the 19th and early 20th centuries to the bully tactics of aggressive Western powers and Japan during World War II is being reclaimed. For more than two thousand years, China was a regional super power.  It seems they have achieved that status again.

Discover Mao’s War Against Illegal Drugs

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