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Covering 3,600,000 square kilometers of the globe and with 1.3 billion people, China is the third largest, but unfortunately most populous country in the world. It is also the second largest energy consumer after the United States on Earth.
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K2 D0 h7 p; KCountries neighboring china include Russia, India, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.
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: W! H- y: k; r5 K8 ^5 t. rChina is made up of 34 provinces, each with their own capital and centrally controlled by the government in the capital of China, Beijing. (you have to get rid of the explanation of capital, because “CAPITAL” means the city with the central government!)
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4 U' l/ I8 K, fThe national flag is red with five golden yellow stars. (You put this here for? It doesn’t fit in other paragraphs.)( u7 j: [4 b: e, L( W }% S) R
. o; x U* P# E* vThe climate of China varies from bitter cold in winter to unbearable heat in summer due to the wide range of geographical differences from deserts to mountains; from tropical to sub-arctic. It has three major rivers--the Yangtse River, the Yellow River, and the Pearl River and the world highest mountain range—the Himalayas.+ f# X) G) c6 ~
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The most important holiday is Chinese New Year, called the Spring Festival, a family holiday celebrated on New Year’s Day of the lunar calendar. It starts on a new moon and ends with the Lantern Festival on the full moon 15 days later. In 2004, Chinese New Year fell on January 22nd of the solar calendar, which leads to the Year of Monkey.
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0 z/ O, `+ C/ U- ~) y nSince China re-opened its doors to the world in 1970s and economic reforms in 1980s, China has experienced rapid economic and policy progress. With China's entry into the World Trade Organization in November 2001, the Chinese economy became more open to foreign trade and investment. In 2003, China's real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a rate of 9.1%, more than 8.0% in 2002. Real GDP for the first quarter of 2004 was up to 9.8% year-on-year -- an unsustainable pace according to many observers, although real GDP growth is forecasted to drop to 8.1% for 2004 as a whole. |
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