At one prominent Apple Store in China, only one person waited outside before the store opened.
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At present there is only one car for every 70 people in China, against one car for every two Americans.
But he is the only one to have turned to China for a bail-out.
To put the staggering growth rates that achieving this target would require, one need only consider that China currently has less than 1 GW of installed solar-power capacity.
China is not only one of the key manufacturing plants for Nike but also a profitable one to sell its products.
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Since 1995, more than 10 million PCs have been sold in China, but only one in five Chinese has Internet access.
One that only worked on the China Mobile network would not.
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Britain uses 40 litres (8.8 gallons) of paint per person every year, for example, yet the figure for China is still only one-tenth of that.
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China still has only one family doctor for every 22, 000 people.
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Google has yet to bring its U.S. success to China--only about one in five Chinese Web searches starts at the site.
Energy is only one area where the rapid growth of China's economy is having an effect on shipping and cargo rates.
With capacity thus constrained, a pick-up in demand from the likes of China could only lead to one result: higher prices.
China is one of only a handful of countries with geoparks dotted all around the country, where the geoparks concept has been a tremendous success.
In August to September last year, China sent its one and only icebreaker Xue Long (Snow Dragon) on a successful two-way test run of the NSR.
The extraordinary emphasis placed on helping the exam candidates stems not just from traditional respect for education, but also from the fact that some 70% of those taking part are only children, born under China's one child policy.
As a child Lang Lang's father pushed him hard to succeed, projecting his own dreams onto his only son -- a product of China's One Child Policy.
And yet even with all this growth, people in China still, on average, consume only one-third as much milk and meat as people in wealthy countries such as Australia, America and Britain.
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When the biggest names in boxing talk about the future of the sport, they point to a soft-spoken man who weighs only a little over 100 pounds and hails from one of China's poorest provinces.
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Victor Meijers, a Dutchman who is the only foreign global partner in DeHeng Law Offices, one of China's big law firms, says that he gets several inquiries a month from struggling European firms looking for a Chinese white knight.
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And so we began a new dialogue with North Korea, one that included not only the United States, but now China.
Then it dawned on me: I might have chosen one of the only tattoos guaranteed to create problems in both China and Japan.
When asked how Kailing combats rising labor costs in China, the chairman explained that labor is only one cost involved in making a product.
Among all of China's 660-odd cities, only one small city of 200, 000, Lianyuan in Hunan Province, can claim to provide clean drinking water straight from the tap.
Chan Laiwa is one of only a handful of self-made billionaire women in China, thanks to the success of her Fu Wah International Group, one of Beijing's largest real estate developers.
For one thing, Internet usage in places such as China is only just beginning to take off.
And China's hospital-centric health-care system provides only one general practitioner for every 22, 000 people.
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Corporate dealmaking constitutes only one aspect of the present economic relationship between the U.S. and China, however.
While still only one-fourth the size of the U.S. venture capital market, China deal making growth far exceeds the action in the U.S. For the first three months of 2011, Dow Jones VentureSource reported U.S. gains of 5 percent for deals and 35 percent for investment.
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Galaxy is one of six license holders allowed to operate casinos in Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal.
But in an economy growing nearly 10%, where only China is a close benchmark, the conditions seem more suited to a Formula One fast blast.
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