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General Profile
Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
Area: total: 9,596,960 sq km
land: 9,326,410 sq km
water: 270,550 sq km
Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateau, desert in west; plains, deltas and hills in east
Capital: Beijing
Administrative divisions: 23 provinces (sheng, singular and plural), 5 autonomous regions (zizhiqu, singular and plural), and 4 municipalities (shi, singular and plural) : provinces: Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang : autonomous regions: Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang (Tibet) : municipalities: Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin
note: China considers Taiwan its 23rd province; see separate entries for the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau
Population: 1,306,313,812 (2005 est.)
Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other 8.1%
Nationality: noun: Chinese (singular and plural)
adjective: Chinese
Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin, Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan, Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, other languages (see Ethnic groups entry)
Religions: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%
note: officially atheist (2002 est.)
Literacy: 90.9%
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Political Profile
Government type: Communist state
Executive branch:
• chief of state: President HU Jintao (since March 2003)
• head of government: Premier WEN Jiabao (since March 2003) ; Vice Premiers HUANG Ju (since 17 March 2003), WU Yi (since March 2003), ZENG Peiyan (since March 2003), and HUI Liangyu (since March 2003)
• cabinet: State Council appointed by the National People's Congress (NPC)
• elections: president and vice president elected by the National People's Congress for five-year term
National Holiday: Aniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic od China, 1 October (1950)
ACD Member: ACD Member Since 2002
Prime Mover (PM) on Working Group: None
Co-Prime Mover on Working Group: Energy Security
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Economical Profile
Currency (code): yuan (CNY)
GDP: $8.158 trillion (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $6,200 (2005 est.)
Exports - commodities: Electronic integrated circuits & microassemblies, motor vehicles and chassis, furniture, textile garments, footware and parts, toy, etc.
Exports - partners:
Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, oil and mineral fuels, plastics, optical and medical equipment, organic chemicals, iron and steel
Imports - partners: Japan , Taiwan , South Korea , US , Germany
Agriculture - products: rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, aplles, cotton, oil seed, pork, fish
Industries: mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals; coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footware, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles and sattlelites
Source : The World Fact Book 2005 (www.cia.gov) |
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