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Cardinal Numbers

September/October 2003

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Cardinal Numbers

Diane Thornton

Population of People’s Republic of China in 2002: 1,284,303,705

Chinese students enrolled at Stanford in 2002: 553

Percentage of those who were undergraduates: 2

Stanford alumni living in China or Hong Kong: 733

Stanford faculty born in China or Hong Kong: 47

Chinese restaurants in Palo Alto: 14

McDonald’s restaurants in Beijing: 56

Sources: The World Factbook 2002; Stanford Bechtel International Center; Stanford Office of Asian Relations; Palo Alto Weekly Visitor’s Guide to the Midpeninsula; McDonald’s

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