On the eve before the closing ceremony here is the last of the fact-files on China:
- 70% of the world's umbrellas are made in China
- 60% of all buttons are manufactured in China
- 72% of all shoes worn in the US are made in China
- China manufactures 85% of the world's artificial Christmas trees.
- 80% of all US toys are made in China
- It takes six months for an average factory worker in China to earn the cost of a Thomas the Tank Engine train set.
These facts are coutesy of the National Geographic - May 2008
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