Linking Europe and China ORIENTplus connects 25% of the world population with 35% of global GDP World population
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ORIENTplus serves 4.8 million researchers and 51 million tertiary students in China and Europe
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ORIENTplus is a 12,000 km link over which 3,882 Terabytes of data were transferred in 2013
Total link expenditure of â‚Ź4m = 5 cents / 4 jiao per ORIENTplus user over 4 years
991 m (3251 ft)
1/15 bottle of water 828 m (2717 ft)
1/30 litre of fuel
508 m (1667 ft)
27 seconds of a cinema movie 306 m (1004 ft)
12 seconds of a musical download
DVD tower Burj Khalifa with data sent the tallest over ORIENTplus building in in 2013 the world
Taipei 101 the tallest building in China
The Shard the tallest building in Europe
2 pages of an online book