China is located in Eastern Asia, bordering multiple countries and bodies of water. It has a population of over 1.3 billion people, with the majority being Han Chinese. China has a communist government and is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. The capital and largest city is Beijing. The EU is China's largest trading partner and they work together on issues like climate change and economic recovery.

2. Location :
Eastern Asia, bordering the
East China Sea, Korea Bay,
Yellow Sea, and South China Sea,
between North Korea and Vietnam

3. On the east:
Russia
North Korea
On the north:
Mongolia
On the west:
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Pakistan
Afghanistan
On the south:
India
Nepal
Bhutan
Myanmar
Laos
Vietnam
regional borders: Hong Kong 30 km,
Macau 0.34 km
total: 22,117 km

4. 14,500 km

5.  Territorial sea: 12 nm
 contiguous zone: 24 nm
 exclusive economic
zone: 200 nm
 continental shelf: 200 nm
or to the edge of the
continental margin
1 nautical mile = 1.85200 kilometers

6. rice, wheat,
potatoes, sorghum,
peanuts, tea, millet,
barley, cotton,
oilseed, pork, fish.

7. machinery and equipment,
textiles and clothing, footwear,
toys and sporting goods,
mineral fuels.

8. machinery and
equipment, mineral fuels,
plastics, iron and steal,
chemicals.

9.  air pollution
 water shortages,
 water pollution from
untreated wastes;
 deforestation;
 estimated loss of one-
fifth of agricultural
land since 1949 to
soil erosion and
economic
development;
 desertification;
 trade in endangered
species

11. world's fourth largest
country (after Russia,
Canada, and US)

12. country comparison to the world: 1

13.  12.29 births/1,000 population
 country comparison to the world: 159

14. 7.03 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 131

15. Beijing 12.214m
Shanghai 16.575m
Chongqing 9.401m
Guang zhou 8.884 m
Shenzhen 9.005m

16. noun: Chinese (singular and plural)
adjective: Chinese

17.  Han Chinese 91.5%
 Zhuang
 Manchu
 Hui
 Miao
 Uighur
 Tujia
 Yi
 Mongol
 Tibetan
 Buyi
 Dong
 Yao
 Korean
 other nationalities 8.5%
(2000 census)

18. Major Chinese Ethnic Minorities
Map

19. A B C D E
D. Animist
C. Christian
A. Secular
E. Muslim
B. Chinese
2.5%2.5%4%31%60%

20. Minnan
(Hokkien-
Taiwanese)
Minbei
(Fuzhou)
Mandarin
Yue /
Cantonese
Xiang
Hakka dialects
minority
languages
Wu
(Shanghainese)

22. conventional long form:
People's Republic of China
conventional short form:
China
local long form:
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo
local short form:
Zhongguo
abbreviation: PRCGovernment Type:
Communist state

23. name: Beijing
geographic coordinates:
39 55 N, 116 23 E
time difference:
UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of
Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
note: despite its size, all of
China falls within one time zone;
many people in Xinjiang
Province observe an unofficial
"Xinjiang timezone" of UTC+6,
two hours behind Beijing

26. 1 January 1912 (Qing
Dynasty replaced by the
Republic of China)
1 October 1949 (People's
Republic of China
established)

27. most recent promulgation
4 December 1982
amended several times

28.  has not submitted an ICJ
jurisdiction declaration
 non-party state to the ICC

30. President HU Jin tao
(since 15 March 2003)
Vice President XI Jin ping
(since 15 March 2008)

31. Premier WEN Jia bao
(since 16 March 2003)
Executive Vice Premier LI
Keqiang (17 March 2008)

32. Vice Premier ZHANG De Jiang
(since 17 March 2008)
Vice Premier HUI Liang Yu
(since 17 March 2003

33. Vice Premier WANG Qi shan
(since 17 March 2008)
cabinet: State Council appointed
by National People's Congress

34. elections: president and vice president elected by
National People's Congress for a five-year term
• elections last held on 15-17 March 2008 (next to
be held in mid-March 2013);
• premier nominated by president, confirmed by
National People's Congress
election results: HU Jintao elected president by
National People's Congress with a total of 2,963 votes;
• XI Jinping elected vice president with a total of
2,919 votes

35. unicameral National People's Congress
or Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui
(2,987 seats)
elections: last held in December 2007-
February 2008 (date of next election to be held
in late 2012 to early 2013)
election results: percent of vote - NA; seats
- 2,987
note: only members of the CCP, its eight allied
parties, and sympathetic independent
candidates are elected

36. Supreme People's Court
(judges appointed by the National People's
Congress);
Local People's Courts
(comprise higher, intermediate, and basic
courts);
Special People's Courts
(primarily military, maritime, railway
transportation, and forestry courts)

38.  Chinese Communist Party or
CCP
 Eight registered small parties
controlled by CCP

39. red with a large yellow
five-pointed star and
four smaller yellow five-
pointed stars (arranged
in a vertical arc toward
the middle of the flag) in
the upper hoist-side
corner
 the working class
 the peasantry
 the urban petty bourgeoisie
 the national bourgeoisie
Red- represents revolution
Stars- four social classes
"Yi yong jun Jin xing qu"
(The March of the Volunteers)
National Anthem

42.  Claims Taiwan, but the
Republic of China exercises
sovereignty and also claims
the mainland

43.  Boundary with India in dispute;
see Aksai Chin and Arunachal
Pradesh

45. 33-km section of boundary with North
Korea in the
(Paektu-san) area is indefinite

46. Involved in a complex dispute over
the Spratly Islands with Malaysia,
Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and
possibly Brunei

47. Maritime boundary
dispute with Vietnam
in the Gulf of Tonkin
Paracel
Islands occupied by
the PRC, but claimed
by Vietnam and Taiwan

48. Claims Japanese-
administered Senkaku-
shoto (Senkaku
Islands/Diaoyu Tai), as
does Taiwan

49. •Agreement on land
border with Vietnam
was signed in
December 1999, but
details of alignment
have not yet been
made public

50.  major
transshipment point
for heroin produced
in the Golden
Triangle;
 growing domestic
drug abuse problem

52. • EU relations with China were established in 1975 and
are governed by the 1985 EU-China Trade and
Cooperation Agreement.
• The EU is China’s biggest trading partner, while China
is the EU’s largest source of imports and second
largest two-way trading partner.
• To reflect the depth and breadth of their Strategic
Partnership, the EU and China decided in 2010 to
upgrade their bilateral relations on foreign affairs,
security matters and global challenges such as climate
change, the recovery of the global economy, etc.
• Annual summits and regular political, trade and
economic dialogues are held.