China's Top Ten Bragging Points

1 大熊猫 Dà Xióng Maō

2 白果 Bái Guǒ

7 天安门广场 Tiān ān Mén Guăng Chăng

10. 長城 Cháng Chéng

Ken,

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what are the 30% percent?

I would guess those 300 million possibly can at least understand Mandarin, but maybe not the best at speaking it, and have known about it since birth as their country's offical language, but always been easier to speak their minority language/dialect. I would say that statistic would be hard to actually figure out. Yes, on a day to day basic I bet only 70% of China speaks PuTongHua, yet they all know the characters and again, if someone from another city comes, probably can get by with PuTongHua. -Rich

Not bad stuff. But I'd love to see 10 bragging rights with regards to experiences and culture. My number 1 would be the best darn fireworks celebration in the world. A couple of those on that list would certainly qualify such as the Great Wall or Forbidden City.

Kyle,

I think that's possible, though it's hard for me to imagine over 300 million people within Chinese borders who do not speak Mandarin. That's greater than the entire population of the US.

Now, I read somewhere that "Chinese", or Mandarin, is only spoken by about 885 million, not 1.2 billion. Any truth to this?

I consider this possible because I'm assuming there are plenty of farmers who still aren't attending school / learning Mandarin, and instead using their native dialect of Chinese.