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Don't get all worked up by the headline, Sinophiles. We're talking about the 60th birthday of the founding of the People's Republic, which Mao Zedong declared on October 1, 1949. Here's a look at China then and now.
Update: Graph has been corrected to reflect China's 2008 GDP of $4.3 trillion, not $44.02 trillion.
A version of this article appeared in the October 2009 issue of Fast Company magazine.
