A Chinese factory manager came to U.S. to tour around a big American factory. This was alleged to be right after their reform drive started. The American counterpart sent a mid-size car to take him in. He was in Mao suit and carrying an ubiquitous large black bag(a standard Chinese government issue at the time.) The man sent to greet him asked how big a factory the Chinese manager was running. He said it is not a big factory, it only has 500K workers. The stunned American guy called back his boss, and a limo was sent to take him in a hurry.
Heh, ONLY 500k employees!