I did some digging on line for some death statistics.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18667123 ... states that in 2005 some 26,000 people died in motorcycle accidents in China.
http://www.motorcycle-accidents.com/pages/stats.html .. gives a figure of just under 5,000 for US in 2006.
Multiply the USA figure by five for comparable population statistics and the figures are actually quite close.
If this is true it is very interesting. Can we take the Chinese statistics at face value?