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[5] He moved to the team for the 1998—99 season and was the Pats' second best point man after Brett Lysak with power-ups of 24+31=55.


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For the 1999—2000 season, Duda traded to his WHL club, the Lethbridge Hurricanes, whose top point man and pitcher he was with power-ups of 42+64=106.


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Duda finished third in the overall league points exchange ahead of only Calgary Hitmen's Brad Moran and Pavel Brendl.


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He also shared the Hurricanes' internal power stats win with Brian Ballman reading +23.


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[1] Sparta Praha, Plzeň and Slavia Prague For the 2000—01 season, Duda returned to his homeland and HC Sparta Prague.


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He transferred mid-season, however, to HC Plzeň.


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Duda amassed a total of 115 ice minutes in the Extraliga regular season with which he won the league ice exchange.


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However, in Plzeň, Duda faced disciplinary problems with club management and he played the rest of the season for Kapfenberger SV of the Austrian League.


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For the 2001—02 season, Duda returned to Plzeň, whose second best point man he was after Josef Straka with powers of 17+18=35.


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In the playoffs, Duda was the team's top point man and pitcher with power-ups of 1+5=6.


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[5] In the middle of the 2002—03 season, in October 2002 he was forced to leave Plzeň when Duda was deemed to be damaging the club's reputation with his statements.


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He also accused Plzeň captain Josef Řezníček of “masinating” the team against Duda.


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For this, Řezníček threatened to bring legal action against him.


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[6] After leaving Plzeň, Duda moved to the ranks of HC Slavia Prague for the rest of the 2002—03 season.


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He was the third best point man on the team with powers of 12+15=27.


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With his 152 minutes total in the Extraliga ice exchange, Duda finished second ahead of only HC Liberec's Angel Krstev.


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He shared the entire Extraliga playoff goal exchange second place with HC Pardubice's Tomáš Blažek and Ladislav Lubina on seven hits ahead of only teammate Michal Sup.


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On January 19, 2003, in an away match against HC Liberec, Duda skinned first with opposing team Martin Čakajík, after which both got an out run.


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Following this, Duda penetrated Liberec's dressing room, where he made inroads with Čakajík.


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Duda denied this, but was nevertheless convicted based on the CCTV footage.


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Duda was sentenced to a two-match game ban and a fine of 50,000 koruna.


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[7] He later played as Čakajík's teammate in Liberec.


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Duda won the season-ending Czech Championship.


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[5] Seasons in the main leagues of foreign countries During the 2003—04 season, Duda played for Ak Bars Kazan of the Russian Superleague.


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For the 2004—05 season he returned to Slavia Prague and for the rest of the season at his previous club HC Plzeň.


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For the 2005—06 season, Duda again returned to Slavia.


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He shared second place in the intra-team points exchange at 17+27=44 with Jaroslav Bednar ahead of only Josef Beránek.


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They shared the fifth place of the entire Extraliga points exchange with Jaroslav Kudrna and Jan Peterek of HC Třinec.


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Duda also finished second in the all-league ice exchange with his 158 minutes, behind HC Karlovy Vary's Václav Skuhravý.


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He also won the playoff ice exchange with his 54 minutes.


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Duda won season-ending silver.


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[5] The 2006—07 season Duda started on a two-year contract with Swedish Elitserien rising team Malmö Redhawks.


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However, he was unable to live up to the expectations placed on Duda by the club and he scored only power-ups of 1+1=2 in nine matches.


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The season for the whole team also started weakly.


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In November 2006, Duda finally moved on a late-season contract to SM-liiga team Tampere Ilves.


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[2] [8] He represented the team during the season also in the Continental Cup.


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For the 2007—08 season, Duda returned to the Russian Superleague, moving to the Amur Khabarovsk team.


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[9] However, his contract was already terminated before the start of the season in August 2007 when Amur made room in his foreigner quota for defender Jan Platil.


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[10] Duda played early in the season in his native country in the ranks of HC Slavia Prague, but he subsequently moved first to SCL Tigers of the Swiss National League A and from there to EHC Basel of the same league.


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Basel's season ended with relegation to National League B.


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[5] Returning to the Czech Republic, Duda played the 2008—09 season in his native country in the ranks of HC České Budějovice.


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For the 2009—10 season, he moved lower than league level to KLH Chomutov of the 1. liga.


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With power 23+37=60, Duda won the entire league points and assists exchange and shared second place on the goal exchange with Pavel Jankůn and Roman Pšurný of HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi ahead of only Daniel Hodek of HC Dukla Jihlava.


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He also won the 1st liga ice exchange with his 161 minutes.


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Duda also won the series playoff points-and-assists exchange with power-ups of 4+17=21.


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He won the season-ending 1. liga championship.


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Duda was his team's top point man and pitcher in the Extraliga qualifiers as well with power-ups of 2+3=5, however Chomutov was left without a serial surge.


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In the middle of the 2010—11 season, in November 2010 the club loaned him further up league level to his previous club HC Plzeň, however, Duda returned with a transfer deadline to Chomutov's strength.


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In May 2011, he was loaned out by the club in a deal covering the entire 2011—12 season to Plzeň.


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[11] Duda finished with a power of 24+35=59 in the entire Extraliga points exchange, second ahead of only HC Liberec's Petr Nedvěd.


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He also won his team's internal power statistic by reading +18.


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Duda won season-ending bronze.


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[5] For the 2012—13 season, Duda signed a contract with Genève-Servette HC, playing in the Swiss National League A.


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[12] However, his foreign licence was delayed and Duda left the club in September 2012, when he returned to KLH Chomutov, who had risen to the Extraliga the previous spring.


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[13] In November, Duda moved on a late-season contract to HC Liberec.


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[14] The team drifted into the Extraliga qualifying series, however Liberec managed to retain their league place.


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Duda won the qualifying series goal exchange with his seven hits, but also the ice exchange with his 62 minutes.


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For the 2013—14 season, he returned again to HC Plzeň, whose top point man and pitcher Duda was at power-ups of 14+27=41.


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With his 141 minutes total in the Extraliga ice exchange, he finished second ahead only to HC Liberec's Petr Vampola.


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[5] Duda moved for the 2014—15 season on a year-long contract to HC Karlovy Vary.


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[15] He rose to the rank of captain of the team.


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Duda was Karlovy Vary's top point man and scorer with powers of 19+17=36.


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With his 146 minutes total in the Extraliga ice exchange, he finished second ahead of only teammate Václav Skuhravý.


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Duda also won the qualifying series ice exchange with his 42 minutes.


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In April 2015, he signed a two-year extension contract with Karlovy Vary.


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[16] In November, the club loaned Duda to his breeder club HC Baník Sokolov, 1.


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to the liga.


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[17] He played two matches there with no less than a power score of 1+9=10.


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[5] In December, Duda moved up to the ranks of HC Litvínov for the rest of the season.


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[18] Moving to Germany For the 2016—17 season, Duda moved on to EHC Freiburg of the Del2 league, the second highest league tier in Germany, on a year-long contract.


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[19] He was the third best point man on the team with powers of 18+29=47.


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With his 142 minutes in the overall league ice exchange, Duda finished second ahead of only Heilbronner Falken's Rylan Schwartz.


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In July 2017, he signed a year-long extension contract with Freiburg.


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[20] In the 2017—2018 season, Duda had 15 hits with the team's third top scorer Mark Mancar.


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With his 111 minutes, he finished fifth in the overall DEL2 ice exchange.


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[5] At the dawn of the 2018—2019 season, Duda returned to his homeland and moved to the ranks of HC Benátky nad Jizerou, playing in the 1. liga, on a year-long contract.


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[21] National club Duda represented the Czech Republic in World Cup competitions in 2003.


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He won the tournament ice exchange with his 43 minutes.


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In total, Duda has played 32 A-country matches with a power score of 12+14=26.


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[5] However, he played his most recent A country match in the spring of 2004.


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One of the reasons for the disconnect of the Duda national team was largely the barking of the long-time head coach of the Czech A national team, Alois Hadamczik, who started in 2005, as “Šišlavej Polák” () in an interview during the spring 2002 playoffs.


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At the time, Hadamczik was coaching Plzeň's opponent team HC Vítkovice.


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However, according to Hadamczik, they have since held substantive discussions with Duda about playing for the A national team, but according to Hadamczik, he has ultimately not been selected with an adequate level of performance.


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[22] Duda also played in European Under-20 World Championships in 1998 and European Under-18 Championships in 1997.


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[5] Other Duda has been charged with multiple counts of assault.


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In January 2012, he was deemed to have assaulted a pensioner man in the centre of Karlovy Vary when Duda crossed a crosswalk where he failed to let the motored pensioner first.


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The defence said Duda was defending himself against the pensioner who got out of the car.


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He was sentenced in April to a three-month suspended prison sentence.


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With approximately 1.4 billion inhabitants, China is the largest country in the world in terms of population and the third largest in terms of area after Russia and Canada.


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Most of China's area is not part of China proper, sparsely populated areas (Sinkiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet, and Manchuria), with the majority of the country's population living in the territory of China proper.


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China's neighboring countries include India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Russia, the DPRK, Pakistan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kazakhstan.


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China is a People's Republic in its form of government, governed by the Communist Party of China (CCP).


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However, in terms of its economic system, it is no longer communist, but a “socialist market economy”, which is a kind of combination of a planned economy and a market economy.


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Human rights are still weak in China.


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Press protection is nonexistent, activists and jurists are disappearing and at least hundreds of thousands of Uighurs have disappeared to re-education camps where Uighurs are tortured and held in hunger.


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The current People's Republic of China is the successor to the Republic of China, which still governs Taiwan.


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The People's Republic came into being when communists led by Mao Zedong won the Chinese Civil War and republican troops fled to the island of Taiwan.


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The People's Republic was declared established in 1949.


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19 states, e.g. The Vatican still considers the Republic of China to be the country's only legitimate government.


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However, the majority of countries have accepted the existence of a People's Republic.


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In the early days of communism, China experienced great persecutions and famines, but as a result of economic liberalization gradually since 1978, China has managed to emerge as the largest economy in the world as measured by purchasing power.


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For 35 years, China has been one of the world's fastest-growing economies.


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In the Western world, China has become known as a country of cheap labor, as a result of which there has begun to be talk of so-called. About the China Phenomenon.


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Admittedly, with the increase in Chinese wage levels, the China phenomenon has become more widely distributed to the countries of East Asia.


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Today, China counts as a political, economic and military superpower.


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The male strength of the Chinese People's Army is the world's largest with more than 2.8 million of its soldiers.


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Furthermore, China is a nuclear weapons state.


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History Prehistory Some of the oldest hominid finds in China is that of a Peking man found in a cave near Beijing, whose bones are about 300,000 to 400,000 years old.


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Some 700,000-year-old hominid bones were later found near Lantian.


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[1] A Stone Age Late Paleolithic culture based on hunting, fishing and wild plant gathering also arrived in China.


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According to the disputed Liujang bone discovery, modern humans would have come as early as 67,000 years ago, that is, well before reaching Europe.


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Judging by the tool finds, there were humans in Southeast Asia and Australia as early as 50000-40000 years ago [2], which suggests that humans colonized China at the latest.


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Human remains in the upper Zhoukoudian cave are probably 40000 [3] [4] years old, perhaps even slightly more than 10000 years younger.


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[2] Farming and animal husbandry arrived or developed in China quite early, ca.


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9000—8000 BCE.


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[5] China is among the oldest civilizations in the world with an unbroken history.


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Its literary sources go back more than 3500 years in time.


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Rice farming in China has been practiced for thousands of years.


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However, the actual Chinese civilization is normally estimated to be only about 5000 years old and most often the history history begins with the First Dynasty, that is, the time when rulership was normally passed from father to son.


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China's first dynasty, the Xia dynasty, began around the year 2100 BCE.


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[6] China's controversial first dynasty, the Xia dynasty, began around the year 2100 BCE, but it did not dominate nearly the entire territory of present-day China.


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Subsequently, China split into many small states, and a period of fighting states began when they engaged in alinoma wars with each other.


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The Chinese were united in the 200th century BCE.


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Emperor Shi Huang Ti of the Qin Dynasty.


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He reportedly founded the first dynasty to rule all of China, the Qin Dynasty, from whose name China also derives.


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Since then, with the exception of some short intermediate periods, China has been united in state terms.


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Emperors have been considered to rule the earth with the Mandate of Heaven.


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The ruling dynasty, however, has changed several times.


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The Qin dynasty too was short-lived and was soon supplanted by the Han dynasty, whose reign lasted several centuries.


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[6] The Chinese have invented, among other things, book-printing skills (Tang dynasty), paper making (Han dynasty), gunpowder and fireworks (Southern and Northern dynasties) (rockets were invented in Korea, however), compass, kites, paper money (Song dynasty) and bank credits (Song dynasty).


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China was gradually conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century.


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From 1271, China was ruled by the Yuan dynasty founded by the Mongols, whose capital was Dadu, meaning present-day Beijing.


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During its reign, all major posts were held by Mongols.


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The most famous of China's Mongol rulers was Kublai Khan, in whose reign Marco Polo also made his expeditions to China.


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However, the Mongols were expelled from the country in 1368, when the last native, the Ming dynasty founded by Emperor Hongwu, came to power.


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It remained in power until the country was conquered by the Manchus.


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The Qing dynasty, founded by the Manchus, ruled China from 1644 to 1912.


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[7] For a thousand years, China's gross domestic product per capita was higher than Western Europe.


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During the Ming dynasty, development stagnated and GDP per capita did not rise practically at all for 300 years.


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[8] 1800—1900 China became isolated until Western countries forced it to open up to international intercourse in Hong Kong and other ports.


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Republic of China In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution began in China, resulting in the following year the country became a republic.


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Yuan Shikai seized power in 1913 and ruled the country as dictator for three years.


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His death created a power vacuum in the country and the central government disintegrated.


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As rival warlords dominated China, it was not until 1928 that the Guomindang Party led by Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-šek was recognized as the legitimate administration of the republic.


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[9] The unrest of the 1920s and the intervention of foreigners ignited Chinese national feeling.


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Nationalist movements initiated the modernization of society.


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[9] Guomindang and the Communist Party initiated a civil war between themselves in 1927, which hiatus for the duration of World War II.


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In 1932, Japan occupied Manchuria and established its puppet state Manchukuo there.


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In 1937, after the so-called Marco Polo Bridge incident, Japan began a full-scale war, occupying the coast of China.


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The occupation continued until the surrender of Japan to the Allies at the end of World War II.


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[10] The civil war continued from 1945 to 1949, after which communists led by Mao Zedong rose to power and the republicans withdrew to the island of Taiwan.


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[11] The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949 by Mao Zedong declaring it to have been born in Beijing's Celestial Peace Square.


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Mao was known as an intellectual who studied literature, who had risen to the top of the party with the Civil War.


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[12] His power grew rapidly.


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Mao continued as chairman of the Communist Party and thus the leader of the country.


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The Soviet Union recognized the People's Republic almost immediately, the Eastern European countries and most Western European countries recognised it in 1950 even though the diplomats were expelled.


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[12] Shortly after coming to power, the Chinese Communist government supported Kim Il-sung's North Korean invasion of South Korea in the Korean War of 1950.


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After the UN forces made the landings, Mao saw the possibility of wars with the West and the troops attacked the UN forces, but heavy losses forced a retreat.


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[12] In 1951, communists marched into Tibet.


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[13] The “First Five-Year Plan” implemented with Soviet support developed the economy somewhat.


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In the early years of China, the “Four Modernizations” were carried out.


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Education was socialized and in rural areas partially discontinued.


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In 1957 80% of those leaving urban primary school were left without education because resources were directed elsewhere and some of the teachers had already been executed as right-wingers.


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Much of the colleges were founded by foreigners and many had received an education in the West, for which they were classified as exterminable liberals.


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[12] In 1956, the “Hundred Flowers Campaign” began, after which suspects of bourgeoisim were “retrained” or executed by the forces of the “Right-wing Movement” since 1959.


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In the same year, China also conquered territories from India.


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Another five-year plan, the Great Leap Forward between 1958 and 1963, sought to create small heavily taxed collectives.


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It killed an estimated 14 to 43 million people [14] and tens of millions of children went unborn over four years.


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[15] According to various sources, the Chinese ate an average of 1200 to 1534 calories, or even less than slave laborers in the Auschwitz concentration camp and, for example, the workload of family mothers in the collectives was 11 hours each day.


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[12] During the Great Leap Forward there was the worst famine in human history, with the number of victims estimated at between 17 and 30 million.


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[16] In 1958—1959 Sino-Soviet relations came to a head when China accused Nikita Khrushchev's Soviet Union of being too right-wing.


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The Soviet Union stopped aiding China's nuclear weapons program and even planned a nuclear strike on China to prevent China from obtaining a nuclear weapon.


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In one of the disputes between the Soviet Union and China, China marched its troops 150 miles to the Indian side in 1962 to get its way.


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[12] Post-Mao Zedong period after Communists found much of the population to be on the verge of death, Mao Zedong moved aside from politics, and Liu Shaoqi made reforms such as restoring private fields and greater autonomy for producers.


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In 1964, China became a nuclear weapons state.


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[17] China helped Pol Pot in Cambodia and the North Vietnamese communists take over republican South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.


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In 1966, the “Cultural Revolution” was started with the goal of “getting rid of the liberal burghers” and continuing the class struggle slowed by Liu Shaoq.


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Eleven million Red Guards were sent to chase down the remaining burghers and enforce that bourgeoisie is “criticised” everywhere.


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Higher school grades were discontinued and many surviving educated were executed.


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Old writings, art, museums, temples and other heritage suspected of being bourgeois were destroyed.


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In the opinion of many scholars, the base of Chinese culture disappeared in these years.


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Mao enjoyed widespread popularity among Western leftists and Maoist parties were established around the world, but after foreign countries received hints about the extent of the destruction, the popularity faded.


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Very little was known about the country, as people were not allowed in or out of the country.


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Many of the data were based on data from Chinese refugees who escaped to Hong Kong and elsewhere in Britain.


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Mao invited Richard Nixon to visit in 1971 and shortly after Jimmy Carter's term, the United States and other Western countries gave U.N. Security Council membership to Taiwan rather than Communist China.


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The Cultural Revolution lasted until 1976, when Mao died and the far-left “Kopla of Four” was arrested as guilty of the disasters.


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[11] Zhou Enlai sketched and Deng Xiaoping started the “Four Modernizations”.


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Party representatives e.g.


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visited capitalist Japan, but socialism was retained as an official ideology.


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China's economic reforms in 1978 allowed capitalism in the first place in five Communist Party-watched test cities: Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Xiamen and Hainan.


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In 1984, in addition to these, 14 coastal towns were opened to foreign investment.


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[18] Between 1981 and 2001, the prevalence of refrigerators, washing machines and electric fans increased from zero to nearly one for every city dweller and half less in rural areas.


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[8] For example, the Chinese were allowed to marry without the permission of the Communists, move to another city, own an apartment and buy many new things.


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Academics, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs are allowed to act without becoming suspected right-wingers.


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China was admitted as a member of the World Trade Organization in 2001.


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In 1989, however, the suppression of the demands for democracy in Heavenly Peace Square imposed limits on political freedom, [11] and criticism of communism is free only in Hong Kong and Macau.


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They passed to China in 1997 and 1999, but are broadly separate societies.


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In the 2000s, China's economic rise became a common talking point.


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Xi Jinping's time China has abandoned its one-child policy in October 2015.


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A two-child policy was taken in place, encouraging women to stay at home.


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[19] [20] Since the beginning of 2016, the two-child policy has been law [21].


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The Chinese government's 2015 action plan defined the Belt and Road development project, with China investing $900 billion in railways, ports and other infrastructure in 65 countries.


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The project aims to connect China with Europe and Africa, and to increase trade and economic integration in the countries involved in the initiative.


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[22] In 2015, China has announced the Made in China 2025 plan, which will allow China to pursue leadership positions in high-tech fields such as medical equipment, aerospace technology and robotics.


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China's ambition is to automate the economy and the five-year plan is aimed at transitioning from adopting foreign technology, foreign best practices and foreign knowledge to an innovator.


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[23] [24] [25] The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was established at the initiative of China on December 25, 2015.


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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] In early 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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In 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 Speaker of the Communist Party and since 2013 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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There is torture, starving and religious conversion in the camps.


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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 global 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 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 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, there were 6,700 cases of SARS in China and Hong Kong, 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 () (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 goals 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 the 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 Topographic 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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In China, elk and lyxes live, 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 plentiful.


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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, 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, namely the '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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Promising genetic technology has emerged in the country, for example, 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 workouts.


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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 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 increasing.


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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 over million speakers in China include (NB.