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| In East Asia, by the west Pacific
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| 9.6 million square km, second to
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| 8,940.4 billion yuan (at the end
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High
in its west and low in its east: mountain areas 33.3%,
plateaus 26%, basins 18.8%, plains 12% and hills 9.9%.
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| Among the 5,400 islands, Taiwan
Island (about 36,000 square km) is the largest, Hainan
Island (about 34,000 square km) the second. |
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Himalayas
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Among
the 19 mountains over 7,000 meters high in the world,
seven are in China. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as
"the roof of the world", has many high mountains. The
Himalayas, with an average elevation of 6,000 meters,
have the world's highest peak Mount Qomolangma, 8,848
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Yangtze
River
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The
Yangtze River, 6,300 km long, the third longest in the
world after the Nile and the Amazon. The Yellow River,
the second longest in China, stretching 5,464 km. |
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| The canyon on the Yalu Tsangpo
River, the world's largest, 504.6 km in length and 6,009
meters in depth. |
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Grand
Canal
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The Grand Canal, 1,801 km long, the longest man-made river
in the world. Its cutting began in the fifth century BC.
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Poyang Lake
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The
Poyang Lake on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze
River is China's largest freshwater lake; the Qinghai
Lake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the country's largest
salt lake. |
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| Most of the country in the temperate
zone, although geographically the country stretches from
the tropical and subtropical zones in the south to the
frigid zone in the north. |
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Giant
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China
has a great variety of wildlife, over 4,400 vertebrates,
more than 100 rare species of the world: the giant panda,
the golden monkey, the white-lipped deer, the South China
Tiger, Crossoplilon mantchuricum, the white-flag
dolphin, the Chinese alligator, and the crowned crane.
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| China has a great variety of plants,
32,000 species of higher plants, including nearly all
the major kinds of vegetation found in the frigid and
temperate zones of the northern hemisphere. |
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| Peony, azalea, primrose and felwort.
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| China carried out its fifth national
population census on November 1, 2000. It has a population
of 1,295.33 million. Of which: the total population of
the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities
(excluding Jinmen and Mazu islands of Fujian Province
hereafter) and of servicemen on the mainland of China
was 1,265.83 million; the population of Hong Kong SAR
was 6.78 million; the population of Macao SAR was 440
thousand; the population of Taiwan Province and of Jinmen,
Mazu and a few other islands of Fujian Province was 22.28
million. |
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| Compared with the population of
1,133.68 million from the 1990 population census (with
zero hour of July 1, 1990 as the reference time), the
total population of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions
and municipalities and the servicemen of the mainland
of China increased by 132.15 million persons, or 11.66
percent over the past 10 years and 4 months. The average
annual growth was 12.79 million persons, or a growth rate
of 1.07 percent. |
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| 71 years old by the end of 2000.
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| The males: 51.63%, the females:
48.37%; people aged below 14: 22.89%; people aged 15-64:
70.15%; people aged above 65: 6.96%; urban population:
36.09%; rural population: 63.91%. |
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| China has 56 ethnic groups. Of
the people enumerated in the 31 provinces, autonomous
regions and municipalities and servicemen of the mainland
of China, 1,159.40 million persons or 91.59 percent were
of Han nationality, and 106.43 million persons or 8.41
percent were of various national minorities. |
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| Of the 56 ethnic groups in China,
the Hui and Manchu use the same languages as Han people,
while the rest of groups have their own spoken and written
languages. |
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| New Year's Day (January 1), the
Spring Festival (the New Year's Day by Chinese lunar calendar),
International Labor Day (May 1), and the National Day
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