Blogs from China

	Date 03/22/08 03/10/08 03/01/08	Title "We Share the Same Sky"- Wuhan Deaf Community Yang Cui, raising the bar in Changchun A Bump In The Road

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Chinese Fun Facts

• There are approximately 3,000,000 Deaf people in China
• The Great Wall, about 4,000 miles long, can be seen by the human eye from outer space.
• Ice cream was invented in China (2000BC) by packing a milk and rice mixture in the snow.
• Mandarin Chinese is the world's most widely spoken language with 885 million speakers.
• The population in China is about 1,317,206,000. 34 children are born every minute.
• Tian'anmen Square is the largest public plaza in the world.
• The "Terracotta Army" set up to protect the Emperor Qin in his tomb included around eight thousand life-size figures.
• A fossil of the world’s oldest flower (142 million years old) has been found in China.
• There are about 40000 characters in Chinese language.
• In the 11th century the Chinese learned how to bake pottery hot enough to produce porcelain, hence the name “china” for fine dishware.