The tallest lantern measured 21.15 m (69 ft 4.67 in) and was created by the Organizing Committee for the 1st Wuhan-Chengdu Int’l Giant Panda Lantern Show (China) in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, on 30 March 2012. The lantern measured 30 m (98 ft 5.1 in) in length and 12 m (39 ft 4.44 in) in depth. It described the famous building Huanghelou in Wuhan City.

The tallest stilts ever mastered measured 16.41 m (53 ft 10 in) from ground to ankle. Saimaiti Yiming (China) was able to walk a distance of 10 steps on them, without touching his safety lines in Shanshan County, Xinjiang, China, on 15 November 2006.

Yao Defen (China) recorded an average height of 233.3 cm (7 ft 7 in) when last documented. There is evidence that suggests Defen may still be growing, as a portion of tumour remains on her pituitary gland, the organ that regulates the production of growth hormone. She is currently too ill to be re-measured.

The steepest tightrope walked on had an angle of inclination of 36 degrees and was achieved by Aisikaier Wubulikasimu (China) and Maurizio Zavatta (Italy) in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China, on 28 November 2011. It was an outdoor attempt for the Tv show CCTV-Guinness World Records Special 2011.

A series of landslides, triggered off by a single earthquake which hit the Gansu Province, China on the 16 Dec 1920, accounted for most of the 180,000 people killed in the event.

Flooding from the Hwai and Yangtze Rivers in eastern China in August 1950 destroyed according to official figures, 890,000 dwellings.

The worst famine caused by drought was in northern China in 1876-79, when between 9 and 13 million people are estimated to have died after the rains failed for three consecutive years. At around the same time (1876-78), approximately 5 million Indians died when the monsoon failed in successive years.

At an air-raid shelter in Chongqing, China c. 4,000 people were killed on 6 Jun 1941. The crowd were leaving the shelter after an air-raid when the warning siren sounded again. The 4000 deaths were due to suffocation and trampling as the crowd tried to return to the shelter.

On 26 April 1942, 1,549 people were killed by a coal dust explosion at Honkeiko (Benxihu) Colliery, China.

In a fire at The Theatre, Guangdong (Canton), China, in May 1845, a total of 1,670 people perished.