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.

About three-in-four (74%) people in China cite air pollution as a big problem and 66% say the same about water pollution.

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.