无人居住的“鬼城”建设在中国各地如“雨后春笋”。
这座8条车道、26英里的青岛大桥是世界上最长的桥，耗资148亿元人民币，但是，只有很少的交通量。
在2008年的北京奥运会上，出镜唱“歌唱祖国”的女孩林妙可（左图）只是动嘴唇，真正的歌声来自另一位未准出镜的女孩杨沛宜（右图）。
一篇文章导致封杀整个媒体。彭博社刊登了一篇披露习近平家族财富的文章后，整个彭博社网站遭北京封杀。
在福建省，刚建成几个月的武夷山公关大桥垮塌。
2011年温州动车相撞事故，40人死亡，200人受伤。
在云南昆明的这家苹果店，整个店都是“山寨”。
2008年发生牛奶里含有三聚氰胺的毒奶事件。
河流变红。
在大陆，富士康公司大楼外安装有防止员工跳楼自杀的防护网。
黄金周假日，中国的高速公路被堵成了“停车场”，人们可以在上面做俯卧撑。
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29 Crazy Things That Only Happen In China(只发生在中国的29件疯狂的事情）
China's rapid economic growth rate has helped create problems that are very unique to China. Its emphasis on speed over safety, poor environmental track record, use of substandard construction materials, harsh regulations, and the propaganda aimed at protecting the image of the Communist party, are all part of the problem.
Couples are getting divorced to avoid taxes, buildings and bridges have collapsed, and dead pigs are floating around in rivers.
We identified 29 strange things that have happened in China because of economic and political governance.
Grave robbers steal and sell corpses for "ghost marriages."
AP
Firefighters are on hand to prevent self-immolations.
AP
Fathers hire assassins to kill their sons' World of Warcraft avatars.
A Chinese father, Mr. Feng, reportedly hired multiple assassins to kill his son's online World of Warcraft avatar.
Xiao Feng, the son, had quit a software development job and spent all
this time playing video games instead of looking for a new job.
People spend thousands of dollars on walnuts.
Wealthy Chinese with limited investment options have taken to investing in walnuts, jade and gold mooncakes. Recently, con artists have been selling fake walnuts filled with cement.
Government officials have spent thousands of dollars on gold and silver mooncakes.
Chinese government officials reportedly spent thousands of dollars on gold and silver mooncakes. This raised concerns of corruption according to Xinhua.
They also spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on jade.
Jade prices first started to rise in 2005 but the jade bubble is said to be popping.
People get arrested for spreading rumors about the Mayan Apocalypse.
AP
'Love Hunters' look for women in shopping malls.
Yang Jing, a matchmaker at Diamond Love and Marriage
looks for women and sometimes men at shopping malls. Wealthy Chinese
pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to "love hunters" like Jing
to find their "ideal spouse," according to The New York Times.
Couples divorce to avoid property taxes.
The Chinese government announced a 20 percent tax on profits from home sales. But couples with more than one home have been getting divorced, taking one property each, and then selling one of the homes tax free, to take advantage of loopholes.
Thousands of dead pigs float in a Chinese river.
REUTERS/Stringer
The government announces a ban on gift giving, and it immediately hurts the economy.
In an attempt to crack down on "gift giving," Beijing banned commercials for luxury products. This immediately impacted retail sales.
The smog is so bad it can be seen from space.
Rapid industrialization has caused pollution problems across China. Recently the smog got so bad NASA said it obscured the view from space.
Obscure James Joyce novel "Finnegan's Wake" becomes a bestseller.
AP
Buildings fall over sideways and are sometimes intact.
Cities with no occupants pop up all over the country.
China's infrastructure-investment-driven growth has caused ghost cities and ghost malls to pop up all across the country.
26-mile bridges get built to nowhere.
The 8-lane Qingdao bridge
is the world's longest bridge and cost 14.8 billion yuan to build, but
sees a fraction of the traffic that was expected, according to the Financial Times.
Cute kids get replaced by cuter kids.
China
lied about the little girl who sang "Ode to the motherland" at the
Beijing Olympics. Yang Peiyi, the real singer, wasn't considered cute
enough and Lin Miaoke was brought in to lip sync the song. The music
director Chen Qigang told the AP: “The audience will understand that it’s in the national interest.”
Whole media organizations get banned.
Business Insider
White collar executives get sentenced to death for their role in the shadow banking system.
Wu Ying aka 'Rich Sister' was originally sentenced to death for her role in shadow banking, but is now expected to serve life in prison.
TV programs are based on interviews with criminals on death row.
"Interviews Before Execution" was
a popular television program. Henan TV only cancelled the show after
Chinese officials worried about how it would impact China's image abroad
following publicity surrounding a BBC documentary on the show.
Bridges collapse within a few months of being built.
One person was killed and 22 injured, when the Wuyishan Gongguan Bridge collapsed in China's Fujian province.
Wealthy people have stand-ins at their trials
Gigantic accidents occur on newly-built high-speed rail lines
Forty people were killed and 200 injured, when high-speed trains collided near Wenzhou in 2011.
Entire Apple stores get counterfeited.
As
Chinese cities develop across the country fake stores have become
increasingly prevalent. Arguably the most famous fake store was the fake Apple store in Kunming, southern China.
Milk gets infused with melamine.
China's
dairy industry has been hit with milk contamination scandals since
2008. Milk products have been found containing everything from mercury to melamine and detergent.
Rivers turn red.
A national pork reserve exists to combat inflation.
China has replaced the U.S. to become the world's largest consumer of pork. The country has a national pork reserve that it releases when prices soar.
Businesses hang nets to prevent employees from committing suicide.
Foxconn installed nets outside its worker dormitories and hired mental health professionals to prevent suicides.
People do push ups in the middle of busy highways.
Cars came to a standstill on China's highways during its Golden Week holidays. Drivers were seen exiting their cars to stretch and even do push-ups.
