LANGUAGE FACTS:
| National or official language: |
Mandarin Chinese or Standard Chinese
(Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), |
| Other spoken languages: |
• Yue (Cantonese)
• Wu (Shanghaiese)
• Minbei (Fuzhou)
• Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese)
• Xiang
• Gan
• Hakka dialects
• and minority languages |
| Literacy: |
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
• total population: 90.9%
• male: 95.1%
• female: 86.5% (2002) |
THE PEOPLE:
| Population: |
1,298,847,624 (July 2004 est.) |
| Structure: |
• 0-14 years: 22.3% (male 153,401,051; female 135,812,993)
• 15-64 years: 70.3% (male 469,328,664; female 443,248,860)
• 65 years and over: 7.5% (male 46,308,923; female 50,747,133) (2004 est.) |
| Ethnic groups: |
Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% |
| Religions: |
Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%
Note: officially atheist (2002 est.) |
ECONOMICS:
Currency: Chinese yuan (CNY)
| Major exports 2002 |
% of total |
Major imports 2002 |
% of total |
| Apparel & clothing |
12.7 |
Electrical equipment & parts |
18.8 |
| Computers |
11.1 |
Crude oil & fuels |
5.8 |
| Electrical equipment & parts |
9.8 |
Machinery & parts |
5.3 |
| Telecommunications products |
9.8 |
Apparel & clothing |
4.4 |
| Leading markets 2002 |
% of total |
Leading suppliers 2002 |
% of total |
| US |
21.5 |
Japan |
18.1 |
| Hong Kong |
18.0 |
EU |
13.1 |
| Japan |
14.9 |
Taiwan |
12.9 |
EU
|
14.8 |
US |
9.2 |
|
GDP (US$ bn; market exchange rate)
|
1,266.1(b) |
Real GDP growth |
7.7 |
| GDP (US$ bn; PPP) |
6,033.2 |
Real domestic demand growth |
8.3 |
| GDP per head (US$; market exchange rate) |
986 |
Inflation |
-0.4 |
| GDP per head (US$; purchasing power parity) |
4,698 |
FDI inflows/GDP |
3.9 |
THE COUNTRY
| Government type: |
Communist state |
| Capital: |
Beijing |
| Independence: |
221 BC (unification under the Qin or Ch'in Dynasty); 1 January 1910 (Manchu Dynasty replaced by a Republic); 1 October 1949 (People's Republic established) |
| National holiday: |
Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, 1 October (1949) |
| Legal system: |
a complex amalgam of custom and statute, largely criminal law; rudimentary civil code in effect since 1 January 1987; new legal codes in effect since 1 January 1980; continuing efforts are being made to improve civil, administrative, criminal, and commercial law |
| Suffrage: |
18 years of age; universal |
For more information visit:
Ethnologue - Language background on CHINA
Country trivias - CHINA
Economics - CHINA
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