China: Facts in BriefChina: Facts in BriefOfficial name: People's Republic of China
Population: 1.26 billion (1999) There are 56 ethnic groups and 91.96 per cent of the country's population are from the largest ethnic group, the Han people.
Currency: (money) Renminbi (RMB) or people's money. The main unit is the yuan. There are about 5 yuan to the Australian dollar.
Government: Communist state
Head of state: Hu Jintao was elected President of the People's Republic of China on March 15, 2003. Read about him here
http://english.people.com.cn/data/people/hujintao.shtml
Go here the listen to the Chinese National Anthem
http://www.niceflag.com/midi/anthems/china.mid
National Day: 1 October
Capital: Beijing
Religions: Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism
Official Language: Standard Chinese or Mandarin
Borders: China has borders with the East China Sea, Korea Bay, the Yellow Sea, and the South China Sea between North Korea and Vietnam
Climate: China is such a large country that there are great differences in climate from north to south and east to west.
Area: 9,596,960 sq km. China is the third largest country after Canada and Russia.
Some agricultural products: rice, wheat, potatoes, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish
Some manufactured goods: machinery and equipment; motor cars, bicycles, textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting goods; fuels, chemicals.
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updated November 2006
