CHINAPeople’s Republic of China

NAME OF CHINA 中国

China is called Zhongguo (中國 or 中国) in Chinese. The character zhōng (中) means "middle" or "central," while guó (国 or 國) means "state". The term is commonly translated into English as "Middle Kingdom"

Geography

People

History

Economy

Politic

Culture

G E O G R A P H Y

Location: Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam

Area: 9,596,960 sq km; irrigated land 545,960 sq km (2003)Area - comparative: slightly smaller than the USTerrain:mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in eastGeography - note: world's fourth largest country (after Russia, Canada, and US); Mount Everest on the border with Nepal is the world's tallest peak

CHINA’S ETHNIC GROUP

Population: 1,321,851,888 (July 2007 est.)

Population growth rate: 0.606%

China officially registers 56 ethnic groups. The ethnic Chinese, known as the Han Chinese, compose 93 percent of the population. Han Chinese speak seven languages, with Mandarin or Putonghua - which means "common speech" -- being the official and most-used.

CULTURE OF CHINA

ArchitectureChinese architecture, examples of which can be found from over 2,000 years ago

OperaChinese Opera is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China. There are numerous regional branches of opera with its original root starting in the dynastic periods

GalleryChinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world

GallygraphyChinese calligraphy is an Oriental art. It is very much like painting. It uses Chinese characters to communicate the spiritual world of the artist.

Filmhttp://myfilmblogs.com/mandarin/

Ancient China was one of the earliest centers of human civilization.

Modern China is one of the worldʼs largest economies

BEFORE TODAY

Ancient China to Modern Times

GDP (purchasing power parity):$7.043 trillion (2007 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):$3.249 trillion (2007 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:11.4% (official data) (2007 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):$5,300 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:agriculture: 11.7% industry: 49.2% services: 39.1%

ECONOMY

Environment within a High-speed development

Communist state: The politics of the People's Republic of China take place in a framework of a single-party socialist republic. The leadership of the Communist Party is elected in the PRC Constitution.Legal system: based on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; constitution ambiguous on judicial review of legislation;

MAO HUJIANGDENG

The relationship between China and EU members

"A country does not have permanent friends, only permanent interests." -- Lord Palmerston, a former British prime minister and a noted nationalist

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