Will Chinese Economy surpass US economy already within 4 years, by 2016? (11/15/2012)
Article by U.S. News & World Report: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/09/report-china-india-to-overtake-us-economy
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Do you know about China's Congress? (11/9/2012)
Take the following quiz provided by BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20265198
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Some estonishing facts about China and careers in general
- Utah's exports doubled in the last 5 years and China is one of the top importers
- Utah leads with Chinese dual immersion school programs in the US
- There is 1 job opening for US citizens in China on the manager level every 2nd day, only on the American Chamber of Commerce job board website
- With a Chinese Studies Minor you increase your career chances significantly
- China has 1.3 billion people, USA 312 million = China has more honor students than the US has students
- If Walmart were a country, it would be China's 6th largest trading partner
- 74% of Americans think that English is the most widely spoken language in the world
- Todays students will have 10-14 careers by age 38
- The top 10 job demands in 2011 did not exist in 2004
- China's economy grew 7 times as fast as America's over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%)
- 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys
- If he spent his ENTIRE YEARLY INCOME on housing, the average Beijing resident could buy 10 square feet of residential property
- China has more pigs (446.4 million) than the next 43 pork producing countries combined (USA: 65.9 million)
- Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second
- America's fastest "high speed" train goes less than half as fast as the new train between Shanghai and Beijing (150 mph vs 302 mph)
- China has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty
- By 2025, China will build enough skyscrapers to fill TEN New York-sized cities
- By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population
- China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year
- 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day

All the more reasons to enroll in the Chinese Studies Minor at UVU: Be part of the tremendeous changes in China! Make the world a better place!