Just when you thought you might have a firm grasp on China, think again.
- Reincarnation – In 2011 China’s state administration has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet without any government permission.
According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.
2. Death Penalty – Human rights organization issued a statement estimating that China carries out a thousands execution annually, higher than the combined total for the rest of the world. Amnesty International confirmed that China executes 1000 casualty in 2015, but believed that more were carried out.
Death Penalty Worldwide, a research and advocacy group under Cornell Law School, estimates that there were at least 2,400 executions in China in 2014, or one execution per 562,500 persons.
3. Gender Imbalance – In China there are 120 boys for every 100 girls causing serious gender imbalance cause by selective abortions.
4. Birth Defects – Around 900,000 cases of birth defect recorded yearly. Across China 13 million families suffered from children with birth defects.
5. Pollution – According to World Bank China is home to 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities in the world. In fact 29% of San Francisco air pollution comes from China.
6. Animal Testing – Animal testing is required by law in China for all foreign cosmetic companies. However local products doesn’t require animal testing anymore.
7. Bra Technology Studies – A degree in bra studies can be attained at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University.
8. Word Censorship – International Business Times took an in-depth look at China’s online censorship by analyzing a crowd sourced list of sensitive words that were censored on Sina Weibo.
9. Dying Pets – Dying pets is a thing in China, in which owners engage their pets to look like other wild creatures.
10. Eating Cats – While others have only consumed cat meat in desperation. Chinese eats up to 4 million cats every year, a culinary tradition which animal rights activist condemned.
11. Exporting Women to the United States – Year 1973 Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the US.
The Chinese dictator said he believed such emigration could kick-start bilateral trade but could also “harm” the US with a population explosion similar to China’s, according to documents covering US-China ties between 1973 and 1976.
12. Messenger Pigeons – During the last quarter of 2010 China began training 10 thousand pigeons to act as courier to supplement the countries communication. The pigeon army could be called to serve in the event of a total breakdown in communication systems occur.
CCTV’s air force expert Chen Hong said: ‘In modern warfare, the pigeon is indispensable.’
13. Pun Control – China bans wordplay in attempt at pun control on the grounds that it breached the law of standard in speaking and writing their language.
14. Chopsticks – Manufacturing and producing chopstick takes approximately 4 million trees annually to manufacture a large number pairs of disposable chopstick.
15. Leftover Women – A tradition Chinese society view that women should be married by the age of 25. Those unmarried beyond this age are often called as ‘sheng nu’ – means ‘leftover women’.
16. Effect on California’s Weather – Research shows the pollution in china cause the massive winter experience in the US
17. Nail in Collar – The purpose of the nail hanging in the collar is for the soldiers in duty to refrain from sleeping.
18. Sinkholes – China may appeared to be dangerous for the sudden appearance of sinkholes. See here
19. Virginity Restoration – A growing number of Chinese women undergoes a procedure called to be a “hymen restoration” to insure that they are virgins on their wedding day.
20. Dog Meat Festival – Thousand of dogs are slaughtered in the annual dog meat festival in the Chinese town of Yulin.
