Cuba is a country that we often hear but is also a little strange to us, do you know the cold knowledge about Cuba?
1. Cuba is a good place, "Cuba" originally meant "fertile land" and "good place". Cuba is made up of more than 1,600 islands overlooking a crocodile, also known as the "green crocodile of the Caribbean Sea".
2. Cuban leader Raúl Castro once said that "Mao Zedong is one of the most revered figures of latin American youth", and his brother Fidel Castro presented Chairman Mao with a pistol engraved with mao's name in Spanish.
3. In 1962, Fidel Castro donated 400 bullfrogs to China and began to promote breeding in China, and Premier Zhou also wrote a letter to Fidel Castro to express his gratitude.
4. Che Guevara was the main founder and leader of the Republic of Cuba, but Che Guevara was an authentic Argentine aristocrat, and "Che" was his nickname, similar to the Chinese words "Hey" and "Oh".
5. Cuba has been implementing a planned economy, with a per capita GDP of up to 9,099 US dollars in 2019, which is mainly due to Cuba's official exchange rate, 1 US dollar = 1 convertible peso, if according to purchasing power, per capita GDP is much reduced.
6. The average life expectancy in Cuba is 79.5 years, close to that of many developed countries. Although it is not rich, but the gap between rich and poor is small, free education, free medical care, everyone has nothing to worry about, nothing to play mahjong.
7. Cuba attaches great importance to education, which accounts for about 10% of the budget, and implements universal publicly-funded education, with a population of just over 11 million, but there are 63 higher education institutions with a literacy rate of more than 99%, leading the world.
8. Cuba has a Chinese newspaper called "Guanghua Bao", which was founded by the Chinese and has been nearly a hundred years now, and is an important medium for cuban overseas Chinese to understand the world, Cuba and China.
9. The sugar industry is the pillar industry of Cuba, with an annual output of more than 7% of the world's sugar, and the annual output value of sucrose accounts for about 40% of the national income, which is worthy of the "sweetest country in the world".
10. Another famous specialty of Cuba is cigars, which europeans found in Cuba. Cuban cigars are basically handmade and are a luxury for the world's wealthy.
11. The Cuban women's volleyball team is known as "Caribbean black rubber", the Cuban women's volleyball team ruled the entire 90s with "eight consecutive championships", won three Olympic Games, four World Cups, three World Championships, and crushed the Chinese women's volleyball team for an era.
12. Daron Robles is another Cuban athlete who grabbed the limelight Chinese. On June 13, 2008, he ran 12.87 seconds at the Robles Athletics Grand Prix, breaking the world record held by Liu Xiang. Two months later at the Beijing Olympics, Liu Xiang withdrew and Robles was crowned champion.