Media Updates, page-18

its only a belief. 8 literally translates roughly 'sounding' to make money or prosperity. In their culture saying it triple times is good.

They avoid the number 4 like the plague.

They also bid for the 2008 olympics very heavily for this reason (and formally opened their economy to the world) and it was when the world economy was heading downhill. Hence the world was saved as China injected about $600 billion into their economy at the time (apart from every central bank dropping interest rates) thus saving Australia and Canada from a housing collapse like in the USA ( the housing crisis of which was the source of the world economic crisis in 2007-2008). Also the Olympic opening ceremony commenced on 8/8/08 at exactly 8 minutes and 8 seconds past 8 p.m. local time. It isn't a theory. But in these times any stimulus from China or stabilization in their economy is welcomed especially as the Americans are picking at all the weak points at the moment to the detriment of every economy in the world.