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[26] In 2016, China is already a larger national economy than the United States in terms of GDP adjusted for purchasing power.


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[27] At the beginning of 2018, it was reported that China has overtaken the United States in the number of scientific research publications.


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[28] In March 2018, the Chinese People's Congress lifted the restriction on the number of presidential terms in power.


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In the vote, 2958 delegates supported the law change, two opposed and three abstained.


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The change in law allows Xi to continue as China's leader until his death.


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[29] China has overtaken the United States as the largest consumer of energy [30], the largest importer of petroleum [31], as the largest producer of renewable energy [32] and in value on the real estate market [33].


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China has also overtaken the United States in the number of applications for patents, trademarks and design protections [34].


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In 2017, Chinese AI start-ups raised more funding than the US [35].


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As of December 2017, China has decided to invest heavily in AI development and China has developed an AI strategy [36] [37].


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On October 18, 2017, Xi gave a speech in which he said that China must take the most significant position in the world and make a greater contribution to humanity.


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The statement was immediately enshrined in the Chinese constitution.


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Xi says the Chinese model of economic growth under the communist regime is thriving and has provided a new alternative to other emerging countries.


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[38] [39] The competitiveness of the Chinese economy is improving through digitalisation.


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Competitiveness compared to other countries is rapidly becoming overgrown with digital technologies.


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[40] According to McKinsey research, an aggressive scenario in automation could mean 236 million jobs will be lost by 2030 [41].


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In 2020, China will introduce a social credit rating system nationwide.


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[42] Politics The People's Republic of China is a socialist state driven by Marxism-Leninism and Maoist ideas and dominated by the Communist Party of China.


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China's constitution describes the country as a socialist state, a democratic dictatorship of the people led by the working class and based on a union of workers and peasants.


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[43] Since 2012, Xi Jinping serves as the Speaker of the Communist Party and since 2013 the President.


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In the past, Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Liu Shaoqi, Li Xiannian, Yang Shangkun, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao have served as presidents.


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The president represents China abroad, signs international treaties and appoints representatives to the State Council.


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[44] Today there is a collective leadership in China and the president is directly under the authority of the People's Congress.


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[45] The main elements of the Chinese administration are: [46] Central Committee of the Communist Party of China People's Congress of China President of the People's Republic of China State Council of China Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China Supreme Court of the People's Republic of China the highest procurator fiscal office in addition to the Communist Party, China has eight minor parties.


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[47] They are “democratic parties” operating under the control of the Communist Party.


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[48] Symptoms of division into populists and elitists have also begun to appear within the Communist Party.


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[49] Since 1978, the country has entered a market economy system while maintaining a great deal of centralism.


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Of the 500 largest companies in China (generating more than 80% of GDP) in 2007, 349 companies are state-owned or state-managed.


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There were 89 privately owned companies, [50] due to which the country has experienced difficulties in obtaining market economy status in international trade negotiations.


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Despite major economic reforms, democracy is not very long in the country, although at the village level there are currently quite free elections and village level representatives are able to elect higher representatives.


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[48] Important political problems include corruption inherited from the Emperor and increased income inequality.


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[51] Hu Jintao raised the promotion of rural welfare as his important political theme and abolished the millennia-old land tax.


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[52] Foreign Policy The People's Republic of China gained UN membership and a permanent member seat of the Security Council and veto power over the fleeing Republic of China to Taiwan in 1971.


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Membership was aided by U.S. support as well as the shuttle diplomacy of Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon's time, since then China has maintained diplomatic relations with almost every country in the world.


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In 1989, China faced a boycott and arms embargo by many countries after bloody defeating a student demonstration in Celestial Peace Square.


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This contributed to the reputation of Deng Xiaoping, China's strongman, who mobilised economic reform policies and known as a capitalist road walker during the Cultural Revolution.


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In Europe, France and Spain have sought to lift boycotts as Britain, the Netherlands and, in lesser numbers, Germany resisted and pressured by the U.S.


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[53] China has had territorial disputes with almost all of its neighbours, and in the 1960s and 1970s many of them developed into armed conflicts.


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Relations between Russia and China have improved since the breakup of the Soviet Union starting in 1991.


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[54] [55] [56] The relationship between the United States and China has also improved in recent decades.


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Underlying the lengthy disputes, in particular, is the situation in Taiwan and U.S. military support for it.


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U.S. relations were also undermined by the Tiananmen events, the bombing of the Chinese embassy by NATO planes in Belgrade in 1999 and the 2001 spying machine scandal.


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Since 2002, the countries' high command has met regularly.


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[48] China has sought to secure its growth by sourcing raw materials, food, energy and markets from Africa.


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The Chinese have bought farmland, established farming communities and hundreds of thousands of migrants have left to become agriculturalists.


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[57] [58] Western countries have criticized China's arms sales in Africa.


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China's official policy in foreign relations is non-interference in domestic affairs.


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China says human rights are relative and defined by each country itself and foreign pressure violates the country's sovereignty.


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[59] [60] Armed Forces The Chinese People's Liberation Army is the largest army in the world in terms of male numbers: the number of conscripted men for actual military service in 2005 numbered approximately 281240,000.


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Although China also possesses nuclear weapons and advanced transport rockets, the structure of China's armed forces is defense-winning and has a large military power only in its vicinity and thus would not normally count as a superpower.


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In the 1950s, China received significant support from the Soviet Union due to, among other things, the Korean War.


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The countries were mired in an intermediate break in 1958, leading to a slowdown in the development of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.


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China's defence budget has grown by more than 10 per cent each year for more than 20 years.


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During the 2001—2007 period, the country doubled its annual arms expenditure.


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[61] In 2008, critics speculated that China would consume between two and three times more military expenditure compared to the country's own official statistics.


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[62] According to the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), China's arms spending in 2011 was $143 billion, the second largest in the world after the US ($711 billion).


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[63] The 2013 budget is 720 billion yuan (approximately EUR 94 billion).


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[64] Human Rights Freedom House classifies China as ″not free' (worst grade) and its legal freedom of the press is non-existent (30/30), laws provide no protection whatsoever for the press (2017).


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[65] Political freedom of citizens was the worst possible and the level of civil rights was the second worst, also among the worst in the world (2018).


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[66] According to Human Rights Watch, during President Xi Jinping's term, the government has arbitrarily imprisoned hundreds of activists and human rights lawyers.


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Many critics have disappeared kidnapped by the government, and detainees are widely tortured, including party members accused of corruption.


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[67] According to Amnesty International, activists and human rights defenders were arrested and convicted on vague charges such as “destabilizing state power”.


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Police sometimes hold them for long periods outside arrest rooms with no means of communication.


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The crackdown on religious practice was tightened from 2017 to 2018.


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The new security laws allow authorities to silence, censor and persecute human rights defenders and those who divide.


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[68] Hundreds of thousands or more than one million Uighurs have disappeared to re-education camps described as concentration camp-like within a couple of years (2018), for example when stopped in the street, you do not know the Chinese national anthem.


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The camps include torture, hungry and religious conversion.


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Uighurs are forced to criticize their culture, drink alcohol and eat pork.


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The action resembles ethnic persecution.


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[69] Environmental and Energy Policy The environmental challenges facing China are immense.


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According to Chinese environmental officials, 1/4 of Chinese drink contaminated water, 1/3 of the population breathes severely polluted air, and 70% of cancer cases are due to environmental pollution.


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China's climate gas emissions are among the largest in the world.


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300 cities have severe water shortages, 70% of which are severely polluted.


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Of the Chinese animal species, 385 are at risk of extinction.


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[70] China today is the world's largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in absolute terms.


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[71] (relative to population ranked 55.


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) [72] China, as the first developing country, published a National Climate Plan on June 4, 2007.


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Economic Development Plan 2006-2010 includes energy saving and environmental goals such as a 20% drop in energy consumption compared to GDP by 2010.


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[70] [73] According to Greenpeace's China energy officer Ailun Yang, China plays a crucial role in mitigating global climate change.


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China's energy consumption and emissions contribute significantly to the world's energy resources and climate impacts.


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China has ratified Kyoto, but as a developing country, the agreement does not oblige China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions until 2012.


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[74] In the 2010s, China has emerged as the largest automotive country in the world.


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[75] The change is also reflected in a sharp increase in the country's automobile sitting rate.


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At the end of 2015, China had about 125 cars per 1000 inhabitants; in 2000, the car fleet accounted for only a tenth of this.


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[76] [77] [78] This increases transport emissions, including the abundance of greenhouse gases, fine particulate matter and traffic noise.


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According to the Worldwatch institute, 80% of China's energy was coal in 2007.


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[79] In 2005, China's energy was 70% coal-fired power and 2% nuclear.


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The use of coal is promoted by its low price.


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Coal is procured through cheap labour from unsafe mines and disregard for emissions.


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Greenpeace's Yang said the price would rise by 30% if environmental and health impacts were taken into account.


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[80] China's wind power market is growing fastest in the world.


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[81] The Chinese government's wind power target of 5 GW of wind power 2010 was met well before the target time.


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Similarly, the government's target of 30GW in 2020 is projected to be reached before the deadline.


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The industry in the sector believes 170GW can be achieved by then.


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[82] There are also plans to increase the use of solar heating, photovoltaics, hydroelectric power and biofuels.


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[83] Rising coal prices and growing demand for electricity have made nuclear power important.


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China plans to overtake France as the world's largest nuclear power country.


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[84] Health policy and epidemics 80% of medical resources are in cities, although 70% of the population lives on land.


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Herbs — herbal medicine, herbal medicine, herbal medicine, still account for 30% to 50% of the pharmaceutical market.


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Hospitals derive their revenue from selling medicines.


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Therefore, doctors sell as expensive drugs as possible.


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Because of the lack of health insurance, the needy cannot afford to seek care.


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The system supports an oversupply of antibiotics that increase the risk of resistant strains.


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Lack of freedom of information slows down the fight against health disasters.


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AIDS This is exemplified by the AIDS disaster in the 1990s in rural areas, which spread through blood sales.


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Blood donation times were increased by returning blood plasma to donors.


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Plasma was a mixture of the blood of more donors, leading to the HIV epidemic.


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[85] According to Pekka Mykkänen, according to the number of victims, the AIDS disaster was probably the biggest tragedy in China since the Cultural Revolution and the most massive man-made health care disaster.


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Some people might have donated blood 11 times a day.


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It was usual twice a day.


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In 2003, 20% of Chinese people did not know about AIDS.


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2.6% knew that a condom protects against it.


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None of the officials, at least in 2004, had been held accountable for blood trafficking.


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The keepers of the illegal stations were punished.


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[86] In 2007, it was estimated that approximately 0.1% of the adult population were carriers of HIV, a total of about 700000 people.


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The ARVT medication would have needed about 190,000 people, but it was only a fifth of them, about 35,000 people.


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The medication situation had improved, in 2004 less than five percent of those in need received the medicine.


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[87] Other epidemics In 1997, the avian influenza virus H5N1 was detected in China.


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In 2002, China and Hong Kong had 6,700 cases of SARS and more than 600 people died.


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Alison Bailey said the slow response from health officials prompted a severe confidence shortage.


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[88] Territorial administration China is divided into 22 provinces (, pinyin: shěng), but the official bodies additionally often count Taiwan as the 23rd province, even though it is not under the Chinese government.


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Taiwan has been offered SAR status but has not accepted it.


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In addition to the provinces, China has five autonomous regions () where a large portion of the population belongs to minority nationalities; four self-governing cities () and two Special Administrative Regions ().


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[89] Provinces Anhui () Fujian () Gansu () Guangdong () Guizhou () Hainan () Hebei () Heilongjiang () Henan () Hubei () Hunan () Jiangsu () Jiangxi () Jilin () Liaoning () Qinghai () Shaanxi () Shaanxi () Shandong (山) Shanxi (山) Sichuan () Yunnan () Zhejiang () Autonomous Regions Guangxi () Sichuan ((Tibetan) () Self-governing cities Chongqing () Beijing () (Beijing) Shanghai () Tianjin () Special Administrative Regions Hong Kong () Macau () Statistics Juha Remes said in Asia there is reason to cast doubt on statistics.


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Several statistics have been prepared lazily or distorting the results.


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It is necessary to have reservations about the results and verify them from a variety of sources.


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Statistics are responsible for shaping opinions inside and outside the country and can be compiled, for example, with European objectives in a positive way.


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[90] By geography, climate and nature China is the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada.


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China has 14 border neighbours: Afghanistan (only 76km of common border), Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, North Korea, Tajikistan, Russia and Vietnam.


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[91] It also shares a maritime border with Japan and South Korea China's terrain forms descend in three steps from the Himalayas to sea level.


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At the top is the Tibetan Highlands in the south-west of the country, which at an average height is about 4000 metres above sea level.


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It is surrounded by high Himalayan and Kunlun mountain ranges, and in the Himalayas on the China-Nepal border lies the 8850-metre high mountain Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.


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[92] North and east of the Tibetan Highlands begins the Second Topographical Zone of China, which most often rises to an altitude of 900 to 1,800 m.


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[93] North of Tibet is the arid northwestern part of China, where mountain-fringed depressions, Tarim Basin and Dzungaria are located.


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In the central parts of Tarim is the Taklimakan Desert.


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The depressions are flanked by the Kunlun, Pamir, Tienšan and Altai mountain ranges.


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[92] The central parts of China include three broad plains, the arid Mongolian Highlands, the Loess Massif formed of loess and the Yunnan—Guizhou highlands known as karst formations.


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[94] [95] The third topographic region of China comprises the largest plains in the country.


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It has extensive lowlands, which are on good access and are home to the largest population centres in China.


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The largest plains are the Manchurian Plateau, the North China Plain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.


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[96] The Manchurian Plateau is an unfolding plateau in the northeastern parts of China.


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[97] The North China Plateau, on the other hand, is a flat lowland formed mainly from the sediments of the Yellow River and Huai River.


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[98] The Yangtze River Plateau, on the other hand, has an extensive network of lakes and canals, and also includes an estuary.


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[96] China has more than 50,000 rivers with a catchment area of more than one hundred square kilometers.


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[99] Due to topography, many of China's rivers flow from west to east, and for example the three most significant rivers flowing through China originate in the Tibetan highlands.


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The largest of the rivers is the 6,300 kilometer long Yangtze.


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Notable rivers flowing from Tibet also include the Yellow River and Xi Jiang.


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[100] The largest rivers in northern China are the Russian border river Amur and its tributary Sungari.


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[101] There are the largest number of lakes in the Yangtze Plateau and the Tibetan Highlands, with Lake Qinghai, China's largest lake.


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[102] Climate climate charts of different parts of China (precipitation in blue poles, maximum temperature in red) Climate in China varies from subarctic north to tropical south and from mountainous to deserts.


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[103] Asian monsoons highlight the differences in seasons.


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In winter, northerly winds predominate, which bring cold air from Siberia to the northern parts of the country.


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[104] Temperature differences between parts of the country are then greatest, the average temperature of Heilongjiang, the northernmost province, is frosty during the winter months and at times as low as −30 degrees, while in the southern parts of the country frost is rare, and in the southwest it is sparse only in the mountains. [103].


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The summer monsoon is accompanied by a southerly flow, hot season and rains from April to September.


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[104] Vegetation and fauna The two major forest areas of China are Manchuria in the north and the subtropical forests of southwest China.


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In the north grow koreansembra and larch trees, as well as birches, ash trees, poplars, maples and linden trees.


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Southern species include Picea asperata, Pinus yunnanensis, teak, santel, camphor, as well as ginkgo biloba.


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The pandas food plant bamboo grows as forests further west as in Sichuan province.


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[105] The forest area in the south continues into the Vietnamese side and is defined as a specific habitat.


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Because the area is densely populated, extremely few natural forests remain.


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[106] China is a meeting place of European-Siberian and Southeast Asian fauna and vegetation.


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Elk and lynx live in China, but also monkeys and alligators.


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There are 18 species of monkeys living in China, most of them in the temperate zone, which is almost unique.


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The most famous monkeys are the bear macaque, snow monkey and other erect nose monkeys, many of which have been hunted for their fine fur.


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A species of erect nose monkey lives in the mountain coniferous forest zone at an altitude of three thousand meters.


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China's most iconic mammals are the gold panda and the big panda, but you no longer meet them mainly in the remote mountains of western China.


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In the deep valleys of the mountains, a few peculiar animals have evolved, such as the land vole-headed.


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There are few large herbivorous mammals and many deer are small in size, such as Chinese montjak, Japanese deer, musk deer and lyre antler.


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Slightly larger are serovi, bull gems, tassel deer, goral, and whiteface deer.


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In Tibetan regions, yaks also live.


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China's most endangered animals include the Chinese river dolphin, the Chinese alligator, and the Chinese tiger, all of which are at imminent risk of loss, particularly due to shrinking habitat.


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[107] Leopard and wood leopard are also rare in China, but not in imminent danger of extinction.


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There are also wild boars and bears living in China.


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Tigers, leopards and monkeys may be destined to gain popularity in the West in the future even by Chinese medicine, which uses animal body parts for various ailments for which there is no scientific evidence whatsoever.


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However, the Chinese administration has taken steps to ban endangered animals as a raw material for the pharmaceutical industry and folk medicine.


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[108] [109] Birds are diverse like other organisms, especially pheasant species thrive.


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About one-third of the world's pheasant species live in China, or reportedly 62 species.


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[110] In total, about 1100 species of birds are known.


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[111] The flute-like luritus of blue irena is an integral part of the forests of Far Asia.


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Kaijas, on the other hand, thrive only in subtropical neighborhoods.


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The squalid are well represented in China, with Manchurian cucumber, black-necked cucumber and damsel cucumber all predominantly found in China.


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The abundant bird species also includes red sparrows, greentalitians, tailed timales, minivets, woodpeckers, and crow birds.


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The waterfowl is also distinctive, including mandarin coskelo, amur duck and amur duck.


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The frog and reptile variety is quite abundant.


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There are more than 140 endemic reptile species.


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[112] The largest amphibian species is the Chinese giant salamander, which grows to 180cm in length, which is extremely endangered.


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[113] Natural disasters, weather events and threats The 2008 Sichuan earthquake was the most drastic in China in three decades.


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China's snowstorms of 2008 were the worst in China in 50 years: they caused 7.7 billion.


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euro damage and killed more than 80 people.


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23 million people were temporarily without electricity, 300,000 houses caved in and 8% of agricultural land was damaged.


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[114] There was a heat record in 2006, a drought record (Chongqing and Sichuan), severe drought in northern China, typhoon Saomai (Zhejiang), the strongest since 1951, a dust deposition of 330,000 tons overnight (Beijing) and the most severe wildfires since 1987.


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According to UNEP, climate change is causing desertification and declining biodiversity in China (coral reefs, mangroves) and is a threat to China's economy.


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[115] 2006 was the warmest year in China during the period 1951—2006.


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The temperature has increased between 0.5 and 0.8°C in 100 years.


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Climate change is estimated to reduce the country's water resources.


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In the future, the number of rainy days will increase in northern China as the abundance of rainfall in southern China increases.


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In the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, heavy rains can add to mudslides.


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Pollution and environmental degradation have emerged as serious problems in China with rising living standards.


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In Hong Kong and other parts of southern China alone, pollution is calculated as causing 10,000 deaths each year.


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[116] An effort is being made to improve the condition of China's major rivers with the support of the European Union and the World Bank.


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[117] Climate change and industrialisation have accelerated the expansion of the Gobi and Taklimaka deserts.


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China's goal is to stop desertification by planting trees.


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[118] China has been almost covered in forest.


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Now the land is about 10% forest.


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Anyone who has reached the age of 11 is obliged to plant 5 trees over a 5-year period.


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[119] Economy The Chinese economic reforms that began in 1978 allowed the capitalist system and foreign enterprises in the first place in five Communist Party-watched test cities: Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Xiamen, Hainan.


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With good results, the reforms were extended to the rest of China.


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There is an effort to boost foreign investment through university education, technology centres and SEZs.


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While everyone's income and employment is growing rapidly, China has large income disparities between the coastal cities that were the first to switch to capitalism and the hinterland.


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China's total output has grown from 2003 to 2006 every year at an annual rate of more than ten percent, and China has been the fastest growing economy in the world every year since 1989.


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In 2005, growth was 10.2 and 7.3% in 2015 [120].


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Rapid economic growth has put energy production and the environment to the test.


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Purchasing power adjusted GDP totalled US$19.7 trillion in 2015.


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[91] Due to its large population, China is the second largest economy in the world after the United States (unless the European Union is counted as a single region), overtaking Japan's economy in size at the beginning of 2011.


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[48] [121], on the other hand, the largest in total foreign trade (2013 exceeding EUR 3 000 billion) [122].


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China's total output has grown at an average annual rate of about ten percent.


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While half of Chinese still live on less than $2 a day, China has a growing and internationally significant middle class.


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Wages are growing in cities by 13% — 19% a year.


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[123] Industry and construction account for about 46.8% of GDP.


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The country is a popular destination for global production outsourcing.


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[48] Services accounted for 40.3% of GDP in 2010.


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[91] China's agricultural sector feeds 20% of the world's population with only 8% of the world's cultivable area.


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The Communist Party is slowly bending to the privatisation demanded by the rural population, whereby those working in the fields would own the capital and the possibility of corruption for local politicians diminished.


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[124] China is one of the main producers of tea immediately after India.


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China's fish catch is by far the world's largest, and the country also consumes more fish than any other nation.


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[125] In the past, the Communist Party promised everyone a safe job chosen by officials, the so-called iron rice bowl.


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As a result, the labor market was unproductive.


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The iron rice bowl has been abandoned, and a large proportion of people today find jobs themselves and change jobs.


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[126] Corruption is still prevalent at all levels and affects many things.


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Enforcing environmental regulations, for example, has proved very difficult.


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Economists scolded the administration for huge environmental problems.


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According to the EU Chamber of Commerce, European firms complain in China about product copying, favoritism by locals and demands for co-operation with Chinese firms.


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[127] Corruption and lack of a judicial system are considered one of the biggest economic problems.


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China's more than 100 ministries and armed forces still run state-owned companies.


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China still has price controls in some areas, and petrol prices, for example, are subsidized.


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[128] The state-owned sector is responsible for about 40% of GDP.


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[48] Science and Technology China's manned spaceflight Shenzhou 5 was launched on October 15, 2003, which made China in order the fourth country to send people into space.


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[129] China plans to build a space station in the near future and land on the moon in the next decade.


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[130] The Chinese government continues to make significant contributions to research and development.


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It will encourage ingenuity and reform the fiscal and tax system to support growth in the sectors of the future.


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For example, promising genetic technology has emerged in the country in recent years.


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China is developing its software, microcircuit and energy operations, including renewable energy sources such as hydro, wind and solar power.


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[131] In order to reduce its polluting coal-fired power plants, China has pioneered the development of new types of nuclear power plants that operate cooler and safer, and enable a hydrogen economy.


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[132] Education Chinese school lasts for 12 years and is divided into a five- or six-year primary school, a three-year middle school, and a three-year high school or vocational school.


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The first nine years are mandatory.


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98.6% of the age class attended primary school in 2002.


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[133] China has a varied array of different educational institutions offering higher education.


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The education system is seen to have many problems, but it is developing rapidly and China already has highly competitive units internationally.


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Many foreign universities have started collaborative projects or set up units in China in recent years.


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Many parents want to invest much of their livelihood on their children's education and private education is popular.


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For example, private language schools, music schools and various hobbies are popular among the middle class who can afford them.


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Studying abroad is prestigious.


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Hong Kong's primary schools and colleges were ranked top in the world in the PISA comparison.


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[134] According to Johan Björksten, a Swedish student who has lived in China since 1986 and studied mathematics and chemistry at Peking University, studying in China is expensive today, making it difficult for the needy to study.


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China invests in per capita study little.


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Experiments are mainly multiple-choice questions, mostly testing data rather than the ability to consider concepts.


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Competition is fierce and there is rarely teamwork.


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According to many Chinese debaters, the current education system is poorly suited to the modern information society.


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[85] According to Alison Bailey (2007), China spends less than 3% of its GDP on education, half that of developed countries, and therefore education is expensive.


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According to Alison, since 2006 rural children save school fees of 400 yuan (40 euros), but still pay for school books.


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Rural parents have moved from land to the city to pay school fees.


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There are not enough schools in the cities for the children of those who have moved to the cities.


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[88] Culture Confucian thought includes a strong structure of class society, with civilization at the top, farmers and artisans below them, and soldiers and merchants below them.


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Class rotation has been possible, the family has been able to save their money to send the eldest son to study.


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Communists seek to shape the world of values and promote equality and an appreciation of hard work.


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[135] The most notable feast day in the Chinese calendar is the Chinese New Year, which coincides with the beginning of the year in the Gregorian calendar.


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Fine Arts Fine art is an important part of China's cultural heritage and has shaped the art of the rest of East Asia as well.


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The most prominent and well-known forms of Chinese visual art include landscape painting, calligraphy, porcelain pottery, and jade sculptures.


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Particularly important in Chinese art is the meaning of tradition, symbolism and brush technique.


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[136] Literature Chinese literature, due to the early nature of the Chinese writing system, has already evolved in ancient times.


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The development of actual narrative literature did not get off the ground until the 14th century.


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The earlier surviving literature is predominantly non-fiction, philosophical or religious works, as well as poetry.


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Of these, an educated person should be familiar with “five classics and four books”.


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Calligraphy is, for the Chinese, the highest metric of civilization.


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The four main works of narrative literature are Xiyouji (The Story of the West Journey), Honglou meng (


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[137] Music and Performance Chinese music, especially traditional music, differs markedly from the Western, both in terms of instruments and pitch.


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Cui Jian was one of the first to rise to the popularity of Chinese rock music in the mid-1980s.


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Chinese stage art often incorporates more acrobatics than Western.


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A particularly notable aspect of performing arts is Chinese opera.


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Architecture Chinese architecture has remained consistent in its founding elements throughout China's traditional culture.


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Among the most famous and distinctive features of Chinese architecture are curved ceilings, pagodas, courtyard houses, gardens and the 6,000-mile-long Great Wall of China.


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[138] Games, exercise and sports Board games such as chess, Chinese chess (xiangqi) and siege chess (wéiqí) are commonly played.


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Among them, competitions and tournaments are held.


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Wéiqí is a game of civility.


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Xiangqi and majiang, on the other hand, are favored by the common people.


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Maintenance of physical well-being is considered important.


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Morning exercises are common.


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Children are already taught self-massage and qigong exercises in school, with which many lessons are started.


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The habit continues in college and later in the working world.


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You see old people in parks doing their daily qigong exercises.


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China's sporting culture is one of the oldest in the world.


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Many historians believe football originated in China.


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[139] Traditional fitness and martial arts such as qigong and tai ijiquan remain popular.


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[140] China has participated in the Olympic Games from 1932 to 1952 and again starting in 1980.


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At the 2008 home Games it had a team of 600 athletes, other Summer Games teams have been teams of over 200 members.


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[141] The Chinese national football team has received silver at the Asian Championships in 1984 and 2004.


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In October 2010, it was ranked 89th in FIFA's rankings.


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There are 2221 football clubs in the country with over 700,000 registered players.


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There are estimated to be more than 25 million unregistered players.


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[142] Other popular sports include table tennis, badminton, basketball and nowadays golf.


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[143] Population The 2010 census result, 1.34 billion, was lower than the UN forecast.


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The rate of population growth was lower than at any time in the past 50 years.


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The fertility rate had fallen to 1.4 children per woman.


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There are 118 chicks born per 100 girl children.


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The ageing and urbanisation of the population is fast, and the proportion of educated people is on the rise.


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The unbalanced age structure has increased calls for the one-child policy to be dropped.


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[144] Guangdong Province has proposed allowing a second child to families where neither parent has siblings.


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[145] Ethnic groups The vast majority (91.5%) of Chinese citizens are Han Chinese [91].


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The remaining 8.5%, or more than 90 million people, represent about 55 ethnic minorities.


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Ethnic minorities enjoy certain benefits, for example, the one-child policy is not binding on all minority nations.


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[145] Some minorities, such as the Manchus, have assimilated into mainstream Chinese culture almost completely.


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Although they have retained their language and religion, by identity they are primarily Chinese and the ethnic group is a secondary identity.


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For other groups, such as the Mongols and Kazaks, Tibetans and the people of Hainan Island, ethnic identity is primary.


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Especially for Tibetans and Uighurs, the question of independence has been important.


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[135] Religions The Chinese government accepts five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism.


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Atheism and anti-superstition have been actively taught throughout the school establishment for decades.


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Still, according to a 2010 study commissioned by Purdue University, 85% had some form of religious belief, and there were more Buddhists (18%) than those with atheist beliefs (15%).


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[146] According to official data, there are about 100 million religiously active people in the country, some estimates estimate 300 million.


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Of these, about 200 million would be Buddhist, Taoist or worship legendary figures like the dragon king or god of good fortune.


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Among the trends in Buddhism, Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism are advocated by ethnic minorities.


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Traditionally Muslim peoples, Hui, Kazakhs and Uighurs number around 20 million in China.


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There are possibly as many as 40 million Christians, according to official figures of 16 million.


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[147] According to another study, there would be 40 million Protestants and 14 million Catholics in the country.


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Catholics are divided between a so-called patriotic church loyal to the communist regime, as well as an underground church loyal to the Vatican.


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[148] In 1949, when foreign missionaries were expelled from the country, there were 700,000 Christians there.


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[149] In the late 1990s, there were at least 70 million practitioners of the Falun Gong method in China.


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[150] [151] The practitioners of the method were subjected to a campaign of violent persecution when their numbers exceeded the total membership of the Communist Party, but e.g.


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US government sources say tens of millions of Chinese may still practice Falun Gong privately.


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[152] [153] Languages The de facto official language of China is Mandarin Chinese.


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According to the People's Daily newspaper [154], in 2004 it was spoken as a native tongue by 53% of the Chinese population.


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Mandarin Chinese is the language of instruction in all educational institutions in China, so almost all educated Chinese know it at least as a foreign language.


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Attempts have been made to make it the only language of instruction even in minority areas like Tibet.


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[155] Until the mid-2000s, it was also the only language of television programs.


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[156] Classical and modern Chinese are two different languages.


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There are dozens of languages in China.


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The characters may be the same, although otherwise the dialects may differ like Swedish and German.


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Most people understand Mandarin Chinese, which is exclusively used on radio and TV.


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Not everyone speaks it.


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Only in Guăngzhōu are allowed programs in the local language.


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Chinese colloquial is comparatively easy.


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It does not include word inflection, tenses, singular and plural, strong verbs and accusative, dative, etc. Word order conveys meaning.


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Character writing fits this language.


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There are four vocal fields (toons, pitches): ā, á, ă, and à. The most extensive Chinese language dictionary from 1718 contains 47035 characters.


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The official literacy rate in China is 2000 characters.


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They correspond to 97— 98% of normal text, where reading literature and journals are still difficult.


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4000 characters already equals 99.8% of the text and is smooth.


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5000 characters corresponds to a fully fluent language.


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[85] Han Chinese speak Sinitic languages, but other ethnic groups in China normally have their own languages.


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Officially there are 55 ethnic minorities in China; however, there are around 100 to 120 languages even if different Chinese are counted as dialects, see Sinitic languages.


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According to the book Ethnologue, 292 languages are spoken in China.


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[157] Other languages of more than one million speakers in China include (NB.


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Some of these are usually counted as dialects of Chinese): Wu-Chinese (77 million) Sinitic Yue Chinese, or Cantonese Chinese (52 million) Sinitic Jin Chinese (45 million) Sinitic Xiang Chinese (36 million) Sinitic Hakka Chinese (26 million) Sinitic Minnan Chinese (26 million) Sinitic Gan Chinese (21 million), Sinitic Minbei (10 million) Sinitic Northern Zhuang (10 million) Tai Kadai Uyghur (7 million) Turkic Southern Zhuang (4 million) Tai Kadai Chinese Sign Language (3 million) Sign Language (Mongol) 3 million) Mongolian Taikieli (2 million) tai-kadai Korea (2 million) isolate Sichuanin-yi (2 million) Lolo Southern dong (1.5 million) tai-kadai Hhong njua (1 million) Hmong-language Kazakh (1 million) Turkic Khams (1 million) Tibetan Tibet (1 million) j.) Tibetan Major Cities As of April 2015, there were a total of 657 cities in the People's Republic of China: 4 province-status metropolitan cities (autonomous municipalities: Chongqing, Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin) 2 Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau), 289 prefecture-level cities (including 15 provincial cities), and 362 district-level towns (including 11 district-subordinate towns and 8 Bingtuan towns).


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Bingtuan cities are special towns operated by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Command, a state-run militia subordinate to the People's Army, established in 1954 in Sinkiang.


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The order of China's largest cities depends on what type of urban definition is used when drawing up the listing.


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If you list administrative areas of varying levels with city status, a different result is obtained from looking at urban areas built in the Chinese conurbation.


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The largest cities in China are, according to the 2010 census, when you include administrative urban areas of prefecture-level or above status: [158] Chongqing, a county-level city, 28.846 million. Shanghai, county-level city, 23,019 million Beijing, county-level city, 19.612 million Chengdu, a city subordinate to the province, 14.048 million. Tianjin, county-level city, 12,939 million. Canton, a provincial city, 12,701 million. Baoding, prefecture-level city, 11,194 million Harbin, a city under the province, 10,636 million. Suzhou, prefecture-level city, 10,460 million Shenzhen, a city subordinate to the province, 10.358 million. Nanyang, prefecture-level city, 10,264 million Shijiazhuang, a prefecture-level city, $10.164 million Linyi, prefecture-level city, 10,039 million Holidays See also Human rights in China Chinese philosophy Sources Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Jung Chang & Jon Halliday| title = Mao| others = Translated by Jaana Iso-Markku| publisher = Otava| year= 2005| id= ISBN 978-9511131687}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Repo & Markkula| title = Olympian China| publisher = Olympia Long Distance Agency| year = 2007| version=3rd edition| id = ISBN 9789519823034}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = David Leffman, Simon Lewis, Jeremy Atiyah| Rough title guide = Thu China| publisher = Rough Guides| year = 2003| id = ISBN 9781843530190}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Pletcher, Kenneth (ed.


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Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

Red-displacement

Redshift is a phenomenon in which light leaving some object becomes redder because the wavelength of light changes between the source and the observer.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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[1] The best known reason for this is the movement of the object at high speed away from the detector.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

Red-displacement

The frequency of light observed in the red shift is lower than its original frequency at the time of departure from the target.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Frequency reduction is wavelength lengthening.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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One can think of a distancing object as “pulling” the light waves longer into the long-wave red face of the spectrum.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

Red-displacement

Redshift should not be confused with reddish, which is a phenomenon due to interstellar matter.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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History The history of the redshift begins in the 19th century with the development of wave mechanics and the study of the phenomenon of Doppler.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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The Doppler phenomenon is named after Christian Andreas Doppler, who first explained the phenomenon in 1842.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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The hypothesis was verified and found true by C.H.D.


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Buys Ballot in 1845.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Doppler was already able to predict that the phenomenon would apply to all waves, and suggested that the varying colours of stars were due to their motion with respect to the Earth.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Afterwards, though, the color variation was found to be caused by temperature differences in the stars rather than their motion.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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The first Doppler redshift was described by French physicist Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau in 1848, who posited the displacement occurring in stellar spectral lines to be caused by the Doppler phenomenon.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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British astronomer William Huggins was the first man to determine the velocity of a star moving away from Earth using this method in 1868.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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In 1871, an optical redshift was found in Fraunhofer lines exploiting the rotational motion of the sun.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Aristarh Belopolski confirmed the existence of a red shift using laboratory equipment composed of rotating mirrors in 1901.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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In his studies begun in 1912, Vesto Slipher found that the majority of spiral galaxies had substantial red transitions.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Subsequently, Edwin Hubble discovered a large-scale dependence between the red transitions of galaxies and these distances, as presented by Hubble's law that bears his name.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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These observations supported the work of Aleksandr Fridman when he later derived the famous Fridman equations.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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These are perceived today as strong evidence in favour of the expanding universe model and the Big Bang Theory.


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Docent Toivo Jaakkola (1941—1995) was a prominent Finnish researcher of red transitions.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Redshift in astronomy In astronomy, the redshift is mm.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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that the light emitted by distant galaxies has shifted towards lower frequencies (i.e. towards the red end of the spectrum) compared to light from nearby stars.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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The farther away the galaxy is the larger the redshift it has.


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This is taken as evidence that galaxies are distancing themselves from each other, the universe is expanding, and that this started in the Big Bang.


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A very large redshift is on distant quasars.


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The blue-shift is only on a few nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda galaxy.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Various red transitions and blue transitions are also observed in the gas envelope of the exploding star and other expanding gas clouds.


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The red and blue transitions widen the spectral lines of rotating stars.


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It can also be noted rotation in the gas wafers.


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Strong gravity on the surface of a dense star causes a gravitational redshift.


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Red transitions can be measured from stars anyway: one can observe the radial velocity of a star whose very small variations have been observed by new measurement methods heavy exoplanets which, by their gravitational pull, lull stars.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Some track values of spectroscopic double stars can be calculated from variations in radial velocity.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

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Blue shift The phenomenon opposite to red displacement is blue displacement.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

Red-displacement

In a blue-shift, the target approaches, and shrinks light waves towards the blue.


Question: What does reddisplacement mean?

Red-displacement

The wavelength of light waves decreases and the frequency increases.


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See also Luminescence Sources Category:Astrophysics Category:Cosmology Category:Key articles in screening


Question: In what year is the Wheel of Time book published?

Song of Fire and Ice

A Song of Fire and Ice () is a song by American band George R.


Question: In what year is the Wheel of Time book published?

Song of Fire and Ice

A fantasy book series written by R. Martin — which has been a sales success — its fourth volume The Ravens' Enders reached first place on both The New York Times [1] and The Wall Street Journal's bestseller lists in November 2005.


Question: In what year is the Wheel of Time book published?

Song of Fire and Ice

Attempting to test the boundaries of the genre in its depiction of patriarchal and feudal systems, the series features sudden and often violent plot twists as well as complex political machinations.


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Song of Fire and Ice

The narrative of the books resembles the style of historical novels, and one of the inspirations of the series has been the War of the Roses [2].


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In Finnish, the series is published by the publishing company Kirjava and has been translated by Satu Hlinovsky.


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Song of Fire and Ice

Since 2011, US cable television company HBO has been producing a television series based on the book series, named after the first book as Game of Thrones.


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The first production season based on Game of Thrones aired in the United States in the spring of 2011 and the second season based on the Measure of Kings in spring 2012.


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[3] The third season, which aired in 2013, as well as the fourth season aired in 2014, are based on the third book Swordstorm.


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Publication History Series Parts Game of Thrones (, 1996) Paperback 2003, Variegated, ISBN 952-99268-0-4 Hardcover Illustrated Department 2009, Variegated, ISBN 978-952-5802-02-3 The Assembly of Kings (, 1999) Paperback 2004, Variegated, ISBN 952-99268-1-2 hardcover illustrated facility 2011, Variegated, ISBN 978-952-5802-05-4 Swordstorm (, 2000) volume 1, Paperback 2005, Variegated, ISBN 952-99268-4-7 volume 2, Paperback 2006, Variegated, ISBN 952-99268-6-3 hardcover illustrated facility, 2014, Variegated, Soft Cents of Ravens (, 2005) Cover 2007, Variegated, ISBN 978-952-99268-8-6 Dragon Dance (, 2011) volume 1, Paperback 2014, Variegated, ISBN: 978-952-5802-09-2 volume 2, Paperback 2014, Variegated, ISBN: 978-952-5802-10-8 The Winds of Winter, unpublished A Dream of Spring, unpublished First Three volumes (1991—2000) Jo before writing the Song of Fire and Ice series George R.


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R. Martin was a successful fantasy and science fiction writer as well as a television screenwriter.


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[4] Martin published his first short story in 1971 and his first novel in 1977.


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[5] By the mid-1990s, he had already won three Hugo and two Nebula Awards, as well as other prizes for his short stories.


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[6] Although his early books had been well received in fantasy circles, his readership was comparatively small, and Martin moved to work as a screenwriter to Hollywood in the mid-1980s.


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[6] He notably did the Fear Frontier series in 1986 and the Beauty and the Beast series until 1990, but also developed his own pilots and wrote film scripts.


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However, Martin became frustrated when his own works were not carried out [6] and grew tired of constraints on television productions such as budgets and episode lengths that forced him to prune characters and cut fight scenes.


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Song of Fire and Ice

[7] This caused Martin to return to his first love, namely books, in which he did not have to worry about limiting his imagination.


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[6] Since his childhood, he admired J. R.


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Inspired by the works of R. Tolkien, he wanted to write high fantasy, but did not have any particular idea.


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Song of Fire and Ice

[8] In 1991, Martin was without work in Hollywood and began writing a new science fiction novel called Avalon.


Question: In what year is the Wheel of Time book published?

Song of Fire and Ice

After making three chapters into the book, he had a vivid idea of a boy who sees a man beheaded and finds the ferocities in the snow.


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This eventually became the first actual chapter of Game of Thrones.


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[9] Martin stopped working on Avalon and in a few days wrote his idea into a whole chapter and was sure it was part of a larger whole.


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[10] After writing even more chapters, he realised that he was writing fantasy [10] and began drawing up maps and family trees.


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[4] However, writing on the book ceased for a few years when Martin returned to Hollywood to produce his TV series Doorways for ABC, which, however, was never released.


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[7] Martin continued to work on Game of Thrones in 1994, [7] and gave his agent the first 200 pages and a two-page story outline.


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He planned the series to continue with the books A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter thus forming a trilogy.


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[11] When Martin had not finished the novel after already writing 1400 manuscript pages, [11] he changed the total number of books first to four and then to six books.


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[7] He thought the series was thus composed of two trilogies linked together, which would form an entire story.


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[12] Martin, who is fond of multi-denominational names, chose the Song of Fire and Ice as the name of the series: he felt that fire-spewing dragons and cold aliens were one of the possible meanings of the series' name for Fire and Ice.


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Martin has also said he is obsessed with songs as evidenced by the titles of his books A Song for Lya and Songs of the Dead Men Sing.


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[13] The revised manuscript of Game of Thrones was 1088 pages long (without appendices), [14] and its release took place in August 1996.


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[15] Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time, wrote his commentary on the book on its cover, thus guaranteeing the early success of the book as well as the book series with fantasy readers.


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[16] The pre-sampled miniature novel Blood of the Dragon, containing Daenerys' chapters from Game of Thrones, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Miniature Novel.


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[17] The deleted 300 pages of Game of Thrones moved to the beginning of the Composition of Kings for the second part of the series.


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[11] The book was published in the United States in February 1999, with a manuscript page count of 1184 (without appendices).


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[14] It was the first best-seller book in the series [7], ranking number 13 on The New York Times list in 1999.


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[18] With the success of the Lord of the Rings films, Martin was first approached by several producers and filmmakers to acquire the rights to the series.


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[7] Martin was many months behind the schedule of his third book, Swordstorm.


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[6] The last chapter he wrote was about “Red Weddings”, which are set after the middle of the book.


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[19] The number of pages of the Swordstorm manuscript exceeded 1521 pages (without attachments), [14] which caused problems for publishers around the world.


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Bantam Books published the book as a single volume in the United States in November 2000, while some foreign-language versions were divided into two, three or even four volumes.


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[14] In Finland, the book was published in two volumes.


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Swordstorm debuted at number 12 on the New York Times bestseller list.


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[17] [20] A problematic sequel (2000—2011) After Game of Thrones, The Condition of Kings, and Swordstorm, Martin originally planned to write three more books.


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[6] The fourth book, named Dragon Dance, was to focus on Daenerys Targaryen's return to Westeros and the resulting conflicts.


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[12] Martin wanted the story to be set five years after the events of Swordstorm so that the younger characters would grow older and the dragons would grow larger.


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[21] The publishers wanted the new book to be shorter than Swordstorm, and Martin took aim at the length of the Kings' Coalition.


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[14] Martin designed a long prologue to the book, which was about Aero's Wet Hair on the King's Points.


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Song of Fire and Ice

Since events in the Iron Islands and Dorne would affect the contents of the book and he could not tell them with pre-existing characters, he developed a total of three new narrator characters for the book.


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[22] In 2001, Martin was still hopeful about the release date of the fourth volume, the fourth quarter of 2002.


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[13] However, he did not get the five year gap written to work for all the characters.


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Martin did not want to fill the gap with mere flashbacks and character reminiscences, but could not, on the other hand, fail to write about past events either.


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[21] After working on the book for about a year, Martin figured that he needed an extra book in between, which was called The Tests of the Ravens.


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[21] The book would continue right where the third book left off, and Martin rejected the idea of a five-year gap.


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[13] He derided the 250-page prologue into chapters of new Dornelian and Iron Islander narrator characters.


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[22] These extended storylines and story interactions made the plot harder for Martin to handle.


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[23] In due course, the manuscript length of the ravens endures exceeded that of Swordstorm.


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[21] Martin was reluctant to make major cuts to get the book to a publishable length because it would have compromised the story he had in mind.


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Printing a book “in minimal font on thin paper and giving every reader a magnifying glass” was also not an option for him.


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[14] Martin also refused the publisher's proposal to divide the narrative into two parts chronologically.


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[24] He hadn't even had time to start writing all the characters' stories and was already running late to schedule.


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[25] He would not have brought some characters' stories to a suitable conclusion by the end of the first book, which is what he always aspires to.


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[21] As the characters in the series had ended up in different parts of the world, [26] Martin's friend suggested dividing the book geographically into two parts, of which Raven's Enders would be the first: [24] this would give Martin time to complete the stories he had begun to complete as he planned.


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[14] He considered a solution to be the best option still years from now.


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[26] Martin transferred the unfinished tales set east (to Essos) and north (Winterfell and the Wall) to the next book, Dragon Dance, [27] and left Westeros in King's Landing, Riverlands, Dorne and the Iron Islands to the endings of the Ravens.


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[14] Both books immediately picked up where Swordstorm left off, [26] and proceeded in parallel rather than sequentially.


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Both books featured a different character guard with a few exceptions.


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[14] Martin divided Arya's chapters into two books after already transferring three of the other popular characters (Jon Snow, Tyrion and Daenerys) to Dragon Dance.


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[27] The Ravens' Tests was released in October 2005 in Britain [28] and November in the United States, [29] and rose directly to the first place on the New York Times bestseller list.


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One of the critics praising the book was Time's Lev Grossman, who called Martin “America's Tolkien.”


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[30] However, fans and critics were disappointed by the sharing of the story, which left the fate of many popular characters familiar from Swordstorm open.


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Martin said he had already written half of Dragon Dance, and announced at the final show of Ravens' Lasts the next volume would be released the following year.


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However, the release date was pushed back time and again.


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Meanwhile, in 2007, HBO acquired the rights to the song of Fire and Ice to adapt it into a television series.


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The series began in April 2011, with the first ten episodes covering Game of Thrones in its entirety.


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Dragon Dance was published after six years in July 2011, [7] and had a manuscript length of about 1600 pages; it exceeded in its page count and writing time all the earlier books in the series.


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[4] As the last third of the book began, the story coincided with the end of the Ravens' endings and continued from there.


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[25] Martin, however, had planned for the book to continue even further, but had to drop at least one major fight scene from it, as well as leaving the fate of several characters open.


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[4] He attributed the reason for the lateness mainly to the problem he called the “meerene node”, which had already plagued him since 2005.


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[31] It was thought to be related to the problem of getting different characters' stories chronologically functional as they intertwine with Daenerys' story.


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He also admitted he spent too much time rewriting and refining the story, but steadfastly denied that he had lost interest in the series or procrastinated deliberately to generate more money.


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Finnish translations In 2002 the publishing company Kirjava was founded because the founders wanted to see their favorite books translated into Finnish.


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[32] Translator Satu Hlinovsky was fond of Game of Thrones when he read it and wanted to take it for translation.


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The novel became Kirjava's first publication and was published on 12 December 2003.


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[33] The second volume of the Composition of Kings was released on December 15, 2004.


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The third volume of the series, Swordstorm, was decided to be released in two volumes due to its length, and the first volume was released on 31 October 2005 with the second volume following on 21 July 2006.


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Song of Fire and Ice

The fourth volume of the Ravens' Kests was released on October 25, 2007.


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The cover art for the books was prepared by Petri Hiltunen.


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In 2009, a hardcover facility for Game of Thrones was published, featuring black-and-white illustration by Petri Hiltusen.


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A similar version of the Coalition of Kings was released in 2011.


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In 2014, Dragon Dance 1 and Dragon Dance 2 were released, as well as the Swordstorm hardcover facility.


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[34] Inspiration and Writing Genre George R.


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R. Martin believes the main influences arose in his childhood, [35] when he read with writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, J. R.


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Works by R. Tolkien, Robert A. Heinlein, Eric Frank Russell, Andre Norton, [10] Isaac Asimov, [13] Fritz Leiber and Mervyn Peake [36].


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Martin never categorized their imaginative literature as science fiction and fantasy or horror, [36] and even today writes all these genres with ease.


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[35] Martin categorized the Song of Fire and Ice as high fantasy and named Tolkien and Tad Williams as his influencers in writing the series.


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[13] [36] He has often said that he admires Jack Vance the most of contemporary writers, [13] but Martin does not feel that he influenced his work.


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[12] Medieval still life has been the traditional basis for high fantasy before Tolkien, [12] whose works still dominate the genre.


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Before starting the Song of Fire and Ice, Martin felt that many of Tolkien's imitators wrote about the “Disneyland Middle Ages” without understanding the true brutality of the era.


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[38] Historical fiction was much more stark and realistic about him, [38] and he was fascinated by the possibilities of medieval opposites such as knighthood and the brutality of war or shack villages and mighty castles.


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[12] When readers in historical fiction can already be aware of the historical course of events, [36] they do not know how to do with the original characters: this creates additional tension and readers are able to relate to the characters better.


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[35] Thus Martin wanted to combine the realism of historical fiction with the charm of the best fantasy works, [38] but limited magic to bring battles and political intrigue to better display.


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[6] Adaptations The television version of The Song of Fire and Ice began in January 2007 when HBO acquired the rights to the series with the intention of adapting it into an international television series.


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David Benioff and D.


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B. Weiss was hired to write and produce the series, with the intention of making each book a single production season.


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Song of Fire and Ice

The pilot episode was produced at the end of 2009 and a decision on nine additional episodes was made in March 2010.


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The series was renamed Game of Thrones according to the first book.


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The series has aired in the United States for seven production seasons.


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In Finland, Yle began presenting the series on TV2 in January 2012.


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[39] Video Games In July 2010, game house Cyanide announced that it was working on a strategy game based on a book series for Microsoft Windows called A Game of Thrones: Genesis.


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[40] The game covers a thousand-year period from the series and presents, among other things, the invasion of Aegon the Conqueror and the conquest of the Dorne of Nymeria.


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Song of Fire and Ice

In addition to military measures, the game also offers an opportunity for diplomacy.


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[41] George R.


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R. Martin helped draft the game's story.


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[42] The game was successful in reviews, with a review average of 53/100 on Metacritic.


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[43] In autumn 2011, two new video games based on the series were announced: Game of Thrones, a role-playing game developed by Cyanide, and a free-to-play MMORPG developed by Bigpoint.


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Cyanide developed the game in conjunction with HBO to guarantee its commonality with the television series.


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Song of Fire and Ice

[44] Game of Thrones was released in May 2012 for PlayStation 3, Windows and Xbox 360.


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[45] Bigpoint MMORPG has not yet been released


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At the 2013 Spike Video Game Awards Gala, Telltale Games announced that they were working on a graphic adventure game based on the series.


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R. Martin announced that his assistant, Ty Corey Franck, will work as a consultant on the game's story.


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[46] The game was released in six volumes between 2014 and 2015.


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[47] [48] Telltale Games is currently developing a sequel to the game.


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[49] See also List of characters in the Song of Fire and Ice series Timeline of the Song of Fire and Ice book series Sources On topic elsewhere Vesa Interior:.


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Helsingin Sanomat on 5 June 2004. Song of Fire and Ice themed wiki. The Finnish language fan site of the song of fire and ice.


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Laura Miller: The New Yorker April 11, 2011.


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The Guardian on 13 April 2011.


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Question: Have people believed that minotaurs were real in antiquity?

Greek mythology

Greek mythology refers to the ancient Greek lore that originally arose and circulated orally and in poetry forms.


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A lot of gods, heroes and fabled creatures appear in Greek mythology.


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Especially divine lore became part of the ancient Greek religion.


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Mythology was also linked to the early stages of Greek philosophy and historiography.


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Greek mythology

Myths were popular subjects in Greek art, plays, and literature, and through this they have had an enduring influence on Western culture as a whole.


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Greek mythology

The supremest gods lived on Mount Olympos.


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The supreme of the gods was Zeus, and the total number of Olympian gods was 12 at any one time.


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Apart from the main gods, almost every function had its own god.


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In addition to the actual gods, a large number of different fabled creatures were known by name, including cyclopes, harpyers, titans, sirens, centaurs, nymphs, and satyrs.


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In Greek mythology, gods are not only admirable figures, they are also capable of hatred, revenge and betrayal, that is, they are very human figures.


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The earliest and most complete description of the early stages of the gods and titans can be found in Hesiodos's work The Birth of the Gods from the 7th century BCE.


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The stories also feature a large number of other gods, demigods and heeros set between gods and humans, and ordinary mortal humans.


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Many narratives are temporally set in the Greek Bronze Age, or the Mycenaean period, which had become mythical when it came to antiquity.