Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About a third of Chinese government workers and Communist Party officials expressed interest in access to information on religion, the highest level of interest by any occupational group in a 2005 Intermedia survey.
Fully 78% of campaign coverage in early 2008 focused on political tactics.
Six of the 10 countries that Americans most like to go to are countries that like Americans.
The Chinese people are nearly unanimous (96%) in believing China’s hosting of the games will be a success, with 56% saying the effort will be very successful.
Seven-in-ten Chinese now say that people are better off in a free market economy, even though this means some may be rich while others are poor
About three-in-four (74%) people in China cite air pollution as a big problem and 66% say the same about water pollution.
About nine-in-ten (89%) Chinese identify the gap between rich and poor as a major problem and 41% cite it as a very big problem.
According to a Pew Global Attitudes survey, 31% of the Chinese public considers religion to be very or somewhat important in their lives, compared with only 11% who say religion is not at all important.
A majority of Chinese (53%) believe they will someday become the leading superpower.
Democrats are following campaign news more closely than are Republicans.
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