Q. Was it still significantly more Maoist and old fashioned than today or was it already pretty materialistic and Westernized? Did bikes still outnumber cars in 1999?
Answer
The Chinese GDP per capita was only 300 dollars in 1990.
In 2013, it's 8,271 by nominal exchange rate, and 12,472 by PPP (i.e. purchasing power parity).
Total GDP in China was only 200 billion dollars in 1990, in 2013 it's 9,372 billion dollars.... or 9.372 TRILLION DOLLARS.
In the 1990s, no Chinese own cars, in 2013, car ownership in urban area is UNIVERSAL. The Chinese buy 0 cars in 1990, they buy 20 MILLION in 2013.
In the 1990s, there was no express ways in China, in 2013, The Chinese express way (or highway) system EXCEEDED US INTERSTATE HIGHWAY BY 30% ! OR 97,234 KM, THE US HAS 78,281 KM.
In the 1990s, China was not industrialized, industrial output is lower than Canada... In 2013, THE CHINESE INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IS 48% HIGHER THAN UNITED STATES. (Notice, United States is 15 times the size of Canada, in terms of Industrial output).
In the 1990s, traveling in China by train was miserable, it's no better than India... In 2013, The Chinese mainly take high speed trains that travel more than 300km/hr, in 1990, there were 0 km high speed raillines in China, in 2013, 70% of high speed raillines in the world are in China.
In 1990s, No Chinese travel abroad for tourism... In 2012 alone, 85 million Chinese have gone to foreign countries for recreation purposes, and spent 112 billion dollars abroad for tourism ! THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD, OUTSTRIP THE DISTANT SECOND ... US BY 43% !
Literally 900 million Chinese people were lifted out of poverty because of CHINESE GROWTH.
The difference is HUGE, and remarkable to say the least. Look how far they have gone !
@WNL: YOU COULDN'T BE MORE BITTER, The very fact that negative news about China are freely reportable within China BY Chinese media shows degree of freedom is greatly improving in the country IN THE FIRST PLACE ! PERIOD !
@Liu: WRONG ! If only those who are connected with the government can get rich, how come 900 MILLION WERE LIFTED OUTTA POVERTY? ARE YOU SAYING THERE'RE 900 MILLION CHINESE WHO HAVE SPECIAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT??? ! PREPOSTEROUS ! BE PROUD, LIU, YOU ARE ALSO CHINESE, BE PROUD, AND BE A MAN !
@Sense: YOU REALLY HAVE NON-SENSE. Back in 1978, 95% of Chinese population lived under 2 dollars a day, in 2013, only 7.8% live under 2 dollars a day, in effect more than 900 MILLION WERE LIFTED OUTTA POVERTY. YOU JUST CAN'T DENY THE TRUTH.
@FREAKLY: Haters are always gonna be haters, I'm not gonna argue with you, it's very very sad that you choose to be a self-hating Chinese whereas actually trying to make the world a better place. RIP.
The Chinese GDP per capita was only 300 dollars in 1990.
In 2013, it's 8,271 by nominal exchange rate, and 12,472 by PPP (i.e. purchasing power parity).
Total GDP in China was only 200 billion dollars in 1990, in 2013 it's 9,372 billion dollars.... or 9.372 TRILLION DOLLARS.
In the 1990s, no Chinese own cars, in 2013, car ownership in urban area is UNIVERSAL. The Chinese buy 0 cars in 1990, they buy 20 MILLION in 2013.
In the 1990s, there was no express ways in China, in 2013, The Chinese express way (or highway) system EXCEEDED US INTERSTATE HIGHWAY BY 30% ! OR 97,234 KM, THE US HAS 78,281 KM.
In the 1990s, China was not industrialized, industrial output is lower than Canada... In 2013, THE CHINESE INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IS 48% HIGHER THAN UNITED STATES. (Notice, United States is 15 times the size of Canada, in terms of Industrial output).
In the 1990s, traveling in China by train was miserable, it's no better than India... In 2013, The Chinese mainly take high speed trains that travel more than 300km/hr, in 1990, there were 0 km high speed raillines in China, in 2013, 70% of high speed raillines in the world are in China.
In 1990s, No Chinese travel abroad for tourism... In 2012 alone, 85 million Chinese have gone to foreign countries for recreation purposes, and spent 112 billion dollars abroad for tourism ! THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD, OUTSTRIP THE DISTANT SECOND ... US BY 43% !
Literally 900 million Chinese people were lifted out of poverty because of CHINESE GROWTH.
The difference is HUGE, and remarkable to say the least. Look how far they have gone !
@WNL: YOU COULDN'T BE MORE BITTER, The very fact that negative news about China are freely reportable within China BY Chinese media shows degree of freedom is greatly improving in the country IN THE FIRST PLACE ! PERIOD !
@Liu: WRONG ! If only those who are connected with the government can get rich, how come 900 MILLION WERE LIFTED OUTTA POVERTY? ARE YOU SAYING THERE'RE 900 MILLION CHINESE WHO HAVE SPECIAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT??? ! PREPOSTEROUS ! BE PROUD, LIU, YOU ARE ALSO CHINESE, BE PROUD, AND BE A MAN !
@Sense: YOU REALLY HAVE NON-SENSE. Back in 1978, 95% of Chinese population lived under 2 dollars a day, in 2013, only 7.8% live under 2 dollars a day, in effect more than 900 MILLION WERE LIFTED OUTTA POVERTY. YOU JUST CAN'T DENY THE TRUTH.
@FREAKLY: Haters are always gonna be haters, I'm not gonna argue with you, it's very very sad that you choose to be a self-hating Chinese whereas actually trying to make the world a better place. RIP.
When will Obama and the democrats begin to deal with the reality of Islam?
Q. Don't they realize that we know it's no longer the genie-in-the-bottle, the Arabian Nights or the magic carpet that Walt Disney taught us about? Don't they know that, for the first time in Islam's history, ordinary people are learning about Islam on the Internet -- everything?
Itâs a tedious process but well worth the time in order to learn the truth: Google search âcivil wars in the worldâ then research each individual civil war and you will find that 90% of them involve one combatant-religion, Islam: in China, Russia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Macedonia, Israel, Pakistan, India, Indonesia-Ambon & Halmarhera, Côte d'Ivoire, Kashmir, Kosovo, Bosnia, Kurdistan, Kirghizia, Nigeria, Philippines, Somalia, Turkey, Chechnya, Sudan, Yemen, Thailand, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh and East Timor.
-3/11/10 Deutsche Presse, Thailand: Muslim separatists kill 4 telephone repairmen. 4,000 people have died in clashes, bombings, revenge killings and beheadings in the troubled region, which borders Malaysia. Of the 300,000 Thai Buddhists who lived in the region, 70,000 have left since muslims started the civil war in 2004.
-8/20/10 AsiaNews, Kashmir: Extremist Muslims are demanding Sikhs convert or leave.
-10/4/11 AFP news, Philippines: The Muslim insurgency has left an estimated 150,000 people dead over more than four decades.
-1/3/12 Reuters, China: â[Muslim] Uighurs in Xinjiang rioted against Han Chinese residents in 2009 and at least 197 people were killed...â
-12/5/10 LA Times: A new Pew Research Center poll shows that majorities in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Nigeria would favor changing the current laws to allow stoning as a punishment for adultery, hand amputation for theft and death for those who convert from Islam to another religion.
-1/29/07 Daily Telegraph UK: 40% of Muslims, ages 16 to 24, want Sharia law; 13% admire al-Qaeda; 36% believe apostates should be executed; 75% believe that women should wear veils.
-5/22/07 Reuters: 25% of young American Muslims believe in suicide bombings to fight the West.
-7/27/08 Sunday Times UK: 33% of Muslim students support killing for Islam; 33% want world Islamic law.
-November 2011 MacDonald-Laurier Institute poll of Canadian Muslims: Only 39% of respondents disagree strongly with the idea of introducing a Caliphate (world Sharia law); 75% wish that Sharia law be implemented; 20,000 support Al Qaeda.
Itâs a tedious process but well worth the time in order to learn the truth: Google search âcivil wars in the worldâ then research each individual civil war and you will find that 90% of them involve one combatant-religion, Islam: in China, Russia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Macedonia, Israel, Pakistan, India, Indonesia-Ambon & Halmarhera, Côte d'Ivoire, Kashmir, Kosovo, Bosnia, Kurdistan, Kirghizia, Nigeria, Philippines, Somalia, Turkey, Chechnya, Sudan, Yemen, Thailand, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh and East Timor.
-3/11/10 Deutsche Presse, Thailand: Muslim separatists kill 4 telephone repairmen. 4,000 people have died in clashes, bombings, revenge killings and beheadings in the troubled region, which borders Malaysia. Of the 300,000 Thai Buddhists who lived in the region, 70,000 have left since muslims started the civil war in 2004.
-8/20/10 AsiaNews, Kashmir: Extremist Muslims are demanding Sikhs convert or leave.
-10/4/11 AFP news, Philippines: The Muslim insurgency has left an estimated 150,000 people dead over more than four decades.
-1/3/12 Reuters, China: â[Muslim] Uighurs in Xinjiang rioted against Han Chinese residents in 2009 and at least 197 people were killed...â
-12/5/10 LA Times: A new Pew Research Center poll shows that majorities in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Nigeria would favor changing the current laws to allow stoning as a punishment for adultery, hand amputation for theft and death for those who convert from Islam to another religion.
-1/29/07 Daily Telegraph UK: 40% of Muslims, ages 16 to 24, want Sharia law; 13% admire al-Qaeda; 36% believe apostates should be executed; 75% believe that women should wear veils.
-5/22/07 Reuters: 25% of young American Muslims believe in suicide bombings to fight the West.
-7/27/08 Sunday Times UK: 33% of Muslim students support killing for Islam; 33% want world Islamic law.
-November 2011 MacDonald-Laurier Institute poll of Canadian Muslims: Only 39% of respondents disagree strongly with the idea of introducing a Caliphate (world Sharia law); 75% wish that Sharia law be implemented; 20,000 support Al Qaeda.
Answer
After 11 years years of rigid stoicism, Muslim outrage was finally
in evidence on a 9/11 anniversary... not that the mass murder of
3,000 innocents in the name of Islam had anything to do with it.
Apparently, someone said something offensive about their religion
- and Muslims worked through their hurt feelings by killing more
Americans and raising the al-Qaeda flag over the US embassy.
Islam's Latest Contributions to Peace
"Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are harsh
to the unbelievers but merciful to one another" Quran 48:29
2012.09.12 (Mogadishu, Somalia) - Eight people are turned into 'pieces of meat' by a suicide bombing at a hotel.
2012.09.11 (Sanaa, Yemen) - Twelve people bleed out following a suspected al-Qaeda blast.
2012.09.10 (Mussayib, Iraq) - Sunni bombers take down three Shiites near their shrine.
2012.09.10 (Parachinar, Pakistan) - Sunnis murder fourteen members of the minority Shiite sect with a car bomb that rips through a packed market.
2012.09.10 (Kunduz, Afghanistan) - A Holy Warrior blows himself up at a demonstration, sending twenty-one other souls to Allah.
2012.09.10 (Aleppo, Syria) - The FSA claims a bombing outside a hospital and school that leaves seventeen civilians dead.
After 11 years years of rigid stoicism, Muslim outrage was finally
in evidence on a 9/11 anniversary... not that the mass murder of
3,000 innocents in the name of Islam had anything to do with it.
Apparently, someone said something offensive about their religion
- and Muslims worked through their hurt feelings by killing more
Americans and raising the al-Qaeda flag over the US embassy.
Islam's Latest Contributions to Peace
"Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are harsh
to the unbelievers but merciful to one another" Quran 48:29
2012.09.12 (Mogadishu, Somalia) - Eight people are turned into 'pieces of meat' by a suicide bombing at a hotel.
2012.09.11 (Sanaa, Yemen) - Twelve people bleed out following a suspected al-Qaeda blast.
2012.09.10 (Mussayib, Iraq) - Sunni bombers take down three Shiites near their shrine.
2012.09.10 (Parachinar, Pakistan) - Sunnis murder fourteen members of the minority Shiite sect with a car bomb that rips through a packed market.
2012.09.10 (Kunduz, Afghanistan) - A Holy Warrior blows himself up at a demonstration, sending twenty-one other souls to Allah.
2012.09.10 (Aleppo, Syria) - The FSA claims a bombing outside a hospital and school that leaves seventeen civilians dead.
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