所有和中国有关的数字都大的惊人,例如,中国号称有13亿人口,有 960万平方公里的土地．经济每年以9％的速度飞快地增长。在本期有关中国的专题文章中,Stuart Anderson用中国建设投资增长率从1999年的4％到2003年的12％这一数字强调了这一点。中国2002-2005年的建设投资计划达到令人惊愕的10580亿美元。这一数字从某些方面解释了为什么世界上所有主要起重机制造商都跑到中国来,在这里设立代表处或建厂。 All figures related to China are staggering. For example, China claims 1.3 billion people and has 9.6 million square kilometers of land. The economy is growing rapidly at 9% annually. Stuart Anderson underscores this point in the feature article on China in this issue of China’s construction investment growth rate from 4% in 1999 to 12% in 2003. China’s construction investment plan for 2002-2005 reached astonishing 1,058 billion U.S. dollars. This figure explains in some ways why all the major crane manufacturers in the world are coming to China to set up representative offices or build factories here.