8/92Percentage change, since 1970, in beer production in China, per capita: +372

United States Feed Grain Council (Washington)/U.S. Census Bureau (Hyattsville, Md.)

8/85Percentage increase in the gross national product of China in 1984: 12

World Bank (Washington, D.C.)

11/86Average annual percentage change, since 1978, in the productivity of American blue-collar workers: +3.4

Scientific American

    In the productivity of American white-collar workers: -.3

Scientific American

7/97Percentage change since 1995 in the number of Chinese Embassy staffers assigned to U.S. congressional relations: +100

Congressional Research Service

9/85Number of Chinese Communist Party and government officials forced to retire since 1981: 900,000

New York Times