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A stunning statistic about China

Yihan Xiong (SIRPA): The Broken Ladder: Why Education Provides No Upward Mobility for Migrant Children in China. The myth of Chinese super schools: Diane Ravitch reviews Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World by Yong Zhao. Chenyang Li (NTU): The Confucian Concept of Freedom. Nick Holdstock on how super-fast bus systems are “the best hope” for fixing China’s urban gridlock. Bill Gates on a stunning statistic about China and concrete. Rebecca Leber on what Beijing abandoning coal means for the rest of the world. Cracks in the atheist edifice: The rapid spread of Christianity is forcing an official rethink on religion. China, irritated with Christianity, is creating its own version. Coming to Chinese headlines in 2015: From a click-bait Communist Party to a Chinese Marshall Plan, here are six major stories that flew under the radar in 2014, but won't next year. Brook Larmer goes inside a Chinese test-prep factory: Thousands of students travel to Maotanchang to spend 16 hours a day, seven days a week, studying for the biggest test of their lives. Joshua Keating on Uncle Xi's power grab: How the Chinese president is cultivating his image while consolidating his power. Can China rise peacefully? If China continues growing rapidly, the US will once again face a potential peer competitor, and great-power politics will return in full force, says John J. Mearsheimer.