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Some basic facts about China

 

 

  • People's Republic of China
  • Eastern Asia; borders with the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
  • slightly smaller than the USA (9,596,960 sq km), world's fourth largest country
  • very diverse climate (from tropical to subarctic)
  • natural disasters occur: frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence
  • over a million people (1,313,973,713)
  • negative migration ratio
  • officialy atheist country, but tradidtionally Daoist (Taoist) and Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%
  • communist state
  • Beijing - capital city
  • yuan (CNY) - currency, ~8.2 yuan per dollar
  • economy eveolved during last 25 years from a centrally planned system to a more market-oriented economy
  • the second-largest economy in the world after the US (measured by purchasing power parity)
  • rapid economic growth (GDP real growth rate 9.3%)
  • very little unemployment rate
  • all sorts of industries
  • 111 million Internet users
  • 489 airports
  • millitary obligation 18-22 years of age
  • one of the most rapidly aging countries in the world
  • environmental problems

 

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