2011年中国的工业产出首次超过美国,美国的工业产出量相当于德国,意大利,南韩,巴西和俄罗斯5国的总合
Charts of the Day: World manufacturing output, 2011
America is increasingly becoming an economy reliant on service businesses, with the comparatively low paying food services sector, and the higher paying (but not at 'manufacturing pay rates') health care sector seemingly together representing an ever bigger part of that reliance.