China Second Best “Drinking Country” According to CNN

China’s rapid economic expansion and love of celebratory drinking makes it the second best drinking country in the world, according to a puff piece published on cnn.com in commemoration of St. Patrick’s Day. The article notes that China’s wealthy are buying up all of the expensive bottles of French wine they can get their hands on and that Chinese love getting wasted on baijiu at weddings, birthdays, and to seal business deals, often taking the form of  “a series of increasingly incomprehensible toasts.” 

The full top ten list is as follows:

10) Australia
9) Germany
8) Uganda
7) South Korea
6) Moldova
5) Ecuador
4) France
3) Russia
2) China
1) Great Britain

Source: CNN