From: Glenn Desouza DeSouza,
China now has 70% of the world’s bullet trains – America will get its first in 2032. Over 2,800 pairs of bullet trains run daily connecting over 550 cities in China. Shanghai to Beijing can be covered in 4.5 hours while the fastest train covering New York-Chicago, a comparable distance, takes 19 hours. *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** ****************************************** 1. Amazing Growth of GDP: In 1989 China accounted for 2% of world GDP by 2020 the share had risen to 17%. In 1989, Japan’s GDP was 8 times larger than China, today, China GDP is 3 times larger. In 1989, India and China were on par, today China’s GDP is more than 5 times larger. 2. 50-Fold Increase in GDP Per Capita: In 1989, the per-capita GDP of China was RMB 1,663 (approximately USD 200) in 2019, China per capita GDP reached 72,000 RMB (USD 10,262) a50-fold increase in dollar terms. 3. Poverty Totally Eliminated: China has lifted 770 million people out of poverty. In February of this year, total elimination was recorded! 5. World’s-Best Infrastructure: China has 70% of the world’s bullet trains. Over 2,800 pairs of bullet trains run daily connecting over 550 cities in China. Shanghai to Beijing can be covered in less than 5 hours while the fastest train covering New York-Chicago, a comparable distance, takes 19 hours. 6. Technology Leadership: China has 819,000 5G base stations, 70% of the world’s total. The USA has just 50,000. - Largest Creditor Nation: China provides more finance than “the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and all other creditor governments combined” - Largest Trading Nation – India to Japan: China is the largest trading partner of more than half of the world’s countries including those who don’t like it very much such as Australia, India and Japan. CPC -- An Elite and Open Meritocracy - Meritocratic: Diplomat Kishore Mahbubani opines that “The Chinese Communist Party is one of the most meritocratic political parties in the world. It selects the best people to join the party. This is absolutely unknown to many Americans.” - Democratic: Demos means people in Greek andaccording to the Harvard Ash Center 95% of Chinese are either relatively or highly satisfied with their government versus 38% of American respondents. - Self-Sufficiency, Innovation-Driven. By 1964, the self-sufficiency rate of China's main machinery and equipment had reached over 90 percent. Since then, that quest for self-sufficiency has never stopped and has helped lift China to a world-leading global technological power in many areas - from 5G to high-speed rails, and from new-energy vehicles to space exploration technologies.
