Nearly twenty years ago, one vehicle license number fetched close to 25,000 Euros in the first public auction of license plates in Guangzhou. Auctions continue to be held bimonthly in Chinese cities, but chances to obtain a plate with the desired number combination have become close to zero. The gov...
On December 4th, The Economist reported the following in an article entitled Omicronomics :
If the Omicron variant is more infectious than other strains, it will increase the likelihood of covid-19 outbreaks i...
In the early twentieth century, Chinese armies were badly lacking in medical care. The National Revolutionary Army of the Nanjing Government under Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sought to increase the number of biomedically trained doctors and improve the application of scientific military medicine,...
From a geometrical point of view, what was published in a collection of statistical data from Shanghai in the first year of the People's Republic, can not really be called a population "pyramid". The graph is rather akin to a cylindric accordion. Looking closely at the vertical scale, one will notic...
What can be termed a "statistical procession" took place on May 1st 1955, when workers and technicians from the Second National General Tire Plant 國營第二橡膠總廠 in Qingdao displayed their six-year production of rubber tires from 1949 to 1954. What looks like a linear growth in total production actually c...
