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83 unusual facts about China


Beijing Government

Beijing, or Beijing Municipality, the capital of the People's Republic of China

Border control

For example, in the People's Republic of China, there are border controls at the borders among the mainland and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

Cangnan Railway Station

Cangnan Railway Station is a railway station located in Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wenfu Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

CenterLink

CenterLink's website currently provides a web-based directory (and map) of community centers both within and outside of the United States, including Canada, Israel, Mexico, China and Japan.

Chaoyang Railway Station

Chaoyang Railway Station is a railway station located in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, on the Xiashen Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Chengdu Golden Apple Child Education

Chengdu Golden Apple Child Education Simplified Chinese: 成都金苹果儿童教育 Pinyin:Chengdu Jin Pingguo Ertong Jiaoyi is one of the major education groups in western China.

China-ASEAN Investment Cooperation Fund

The Fund is part of the Chinese strategy to deepen cooperation between China and ASEAN, Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang reiterated on September 9.

China-Belarus Industrial Park

On June 5, 2012 the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, signed decree № 253 «On the China-Belarus Industrial Park».

July 17, 2013, Alexander Lukashenko, at a meeting in Beijing with Premier of the State Council of the PRC Li Keqiang, asked the Chinese government «to provide maximum assistance» in the development of the industrial park.

China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy

The creation of ICARE follows an agreement signed in 2009 by European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Chinese Minister for Foreign Trade GAO Hucheng in the frame of the collaboration between China and Europe for environmental protection and climate change mitigation.

China-EU School of Law

European members of the Advisory Board are: former President of the European Court of Justice, Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias; Dean of the China Europe International Business School, Rolf D. Cremer; and former head of the European Union Delegation to China and Mongolia, Serge Abou.

China-Japan Supermatches

The tournament was hosted by NEC; it began in 1984, and has been held 13 times until 1997.

China's peaceful rise

In diplomacy, the doctrine calls for less assertiveness in border disputes such as those concerning the Spratly Islands, Diaoyu Islands, and South Tibet.

China's Schindler

John Rabe, a German businessman who provided refuge for Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre.

China's Wikipedia

Baidu Baike, a "wiki-like" Chinese-language online encyclopedia

Dalian University of Technology

It is also one of the national key universities administered directly under the Ministry of Education of China.

Fengdu Railway Station

Fengdu Railway Station is a railway station under construction in Chongqing City, People's Republic of China, on the Yuli Railway.

Fengting Railway Station

Fuzhou South Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe

Father Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe (雷鳴遠) (1877-1940) was a Roman Catholic missionary to China whose advocacy led the pope to appoint the first native Chinese bishops.

Fu'an Railway Station

Fu'an Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wenfu Railway which operated by Nanchang Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Fuding Railway Station

Fuding Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wenfu Railway which operated by Nanchang Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Fuling North Railway Station

Fuling North Railway Station is a railway station located in Chongqing City, People's Republic of China, on the Yuli Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Functional constituency

A functional constituency is an electoral device used within the political systems of two Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China|Special Administrative

Fuqing Railway Station

Fuqing Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Gerd Kaminski

Gerd Kaminski (* 14 December 1942 in Vienna) is an Austrian legal scholar and an expert in Chinese affairs.

Great Lady of Gresik

After her father died, admiral Hajji Mahmud (admiral Zheng He) of Ming China decided to make her brother the new chieftain of Palembang, so she left Palembang and went to Gresik in east Java to preach her religion to the natives.

Guyi Railway Station

Guyi Station is a railway station located in Chongqing City, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Hanjiang Railway Station

Hanjiang Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Historical behaviour studies

A particular characteristic of the Stuttgart studies of historical behaviour was the comparative turn towards non-Western societies like Indonesia, Japan, and China.

Houmen Railway Station

Houmen Railway Station is a railway station located in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, on the Xiashen Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Huayan Railway Station

Huayan Station is a railway station located in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Wuhan Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Hui Cheung-ching

Hui Cheung-ching, SBS, JP (4 September 1942, Puning, Guangdong, China – 6 January 2005, Hong Kong) was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1998–2004 for the Import and Export constituency.

Hui nationality

Hui people, the current designation for Chinese language speaking people descended from foreign Muslims, who may or may not be practicing the religion of Islam, as recognized by the People's Republic of China

One of the Five Races Under One Union under which all Muslims by religion were grouped, regardless of race, under the Republic of China, no longer in use

Hui'an West Railway Station

Hui'an West Railway Station is a future railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Huidong Railway Station

Huidong Railway Station is a railway station located in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, on the Xiashen Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

International counter-terrorism operations of Russia

The Delhi summit on security took place on February 14, 2007 with the foreign ministers of China, India, and Russia meeting in Hyderabad House, Delhi, India to discuss terrorism, drug trafficking, reform of the United Nations, and the security situations in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

International Mayor Communication Centre

With China in the midst of the one of the greatest economic development periods in humans history and having a population participation in the largest mass migration in human history, the challenges faced by mainland Chinese cities are numerous.

Jianshi Railway Station

Jianshi Station is a railway station located in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Jiaotong

Jiaotong University in China, which is the predecessor of multiple present-day universities.

Langping Railway Station

Langping Station is a future railway station located in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Liuzhou Senior High School

Liuzhou Senior High School is a high school located in Liuzhou, Guangxi, China.

Luoshuidong Railway Station

Luoshuidong Station is a railway station located in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Luotian Railway Station

Luotian Station is a railway station located in Luotian Town, Wanzhou District, Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Luoyuan Railway Station

Luoyuan Railway Station is a railway station located in Luoyuan County, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wenfu Railway which operated by Nanchang Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Mawei Railway Station

Mawei Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wenfu Railway which operated by Nanchang Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

MBA Polymers

In 2004 MBA Polymers created a joint venture with Guangzhou Iron and Steel Enterprises Holdings Ltd to establish its sustainable recycling operations in China.

Meili Yinyuehui

It consists of one disc with eight songs and a second disc with ten songs in a sort of modernized Chinese form.

Mosuo

Although the Mosuo are culturally distinct from the Nakhi, the Chinese government places them as members of the Nakhi (aka Naxi) minority.

Nanjing Foreign Language School

The latter three languages are usually not offered at Chinese middle schools or high schools.

Nanjing Foreign Language School is widely recognized as one of the best middle/high schools in China, especially for its tradition of feeding talents to prestigious universities in China and abroad.

Neican

internal reference reports or internal reference materials) are internal, limited circulation reports prepared for the high-ranking Chinese government and Communist Party officials.

Ng Poon Chew

He published the first Chinese language daily newspaper to be printed outside of China.

NingBo Vocational Education Central School

Ningbo Vocational Education Central School (VEC; simplified Chinese: 宁波市职业技术教育中心学校; traditional Chinese: 寧波市職業技術教育中心學校) is a national-level key vocational school in Ningbo, China.

One-child policy

Many demographers consider the term "one-child" policy a misnomer, as the policy allows many exceptions: rural families can have a second child if the first child is a girl or is disabled, and ethnic minorities are exempt.

Children born in overseas countries are not counted under the policy if they do not obtain Chinese citizenship.

The sex ratio at birth (between male and female births) in mainland China reached 117:100 and remained steady between 2000 and 2013, substantially higher than the natural baseline, which ranges between 103:100 and 107:100.

Pingyang Railway Station

Pingyang Railway Station is a railway station located in Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wenfu Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Project Hope

National Audit Office confirmed that in 2002 it audited financial situations of Project Hope but the report was never publicised.

Putian Railway Station

Putian Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway.

Quanzhou Railway Station

Quanzhou Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Romantic Energy

It consists of seventeen songs in a sort of modernized Chinese form.

Rui'an Railway Station

Rui'an Railway Station is a railway station located in Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wenfu Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Saifuding

Saifuding, one of several aliases associated with Abdul Haq (1971-2010), an ethnic Uyghur from China, who was alleged to be a leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Party and reportedly killed in a drone missile strike in Pakistan in February, 2010.

Shandong Zibo Experimental High School

Shandong Zibo Experimental High School (Chinese: 山东淄博实验中学,pinyin: Shāndōng Zībó Shíyàn Zhōngxúe) located in Zibo, Shandong, China, is a key school in Shandong Province, China.

Shapu Railway Station

Shapu (formerly Baishi) is a railway station in the village of Shapu in Zengcheng, Guangdong, China.

Shuanghe Railway Station

Shuanghe Station is a railway station located in Chongqing City, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Shuren School of Yangzhou Middle School Education Group

Shuren School of Yangzhou Middle School Education Group is a private school in Yangzhou, China, founded with the approval from Yangzhou Municipal Government in June 1999.

Suizhong North Railway Station

Suizhong North Railway Station is a railway station of Qinshen Passenger Railway, located in Suizhong Town, Suizhong County, China.

Suzhou Polytechnic Institute of Agriculture

Suzhou Polytechnic Institute of Agriculture is situated in the downtown part of Suzhou, China.

Tianjin No. 3 Middle School

Tianjin No. 3 Middle School is located on Xiangdong Road in Hongqiao District of Tianjin, China.

VentureSoft

It was founded in 1998, and currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia, India, Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Europe and the USA.

Wooden Coaster - Fireball

Wooden Coaster - Fireball (Chinese: 谷木游龙) is a wooden roller coaster located at Happy Valley in Songjiang, Shanghai, China.

Xiang'an Railway Station

Xiang'an Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Xiantao West Railway Station

Xiantao West Railway Station is a railway station located in Xiantao City, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Hanyi Railway which operated by Wuhan Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Xiaopin

Sketch comedy - A Chinese comedic performance in the form of a short skit between two or more performers.

Xing Rongjie

Xing was born in Heipei, China and started his career in the army in 1933 as a Mission Commander of the Defend Group, which joined the Chinese Republic Army in 1937.

Xinlin Railway Station

Xinlin Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Yellowworld

In May 2003, Yellowworld.org began Project SARSfund, an online charity to purchase medical supplies and equipment for health workers in China battling the SARS epidemic.

You River

The You River may refer to different rivers within China.

Yuhuatai Senior High School

As a full-time senior high school, Yuhuatai Senior High School is under the direct jurisdiction of Yuhuatai Euducation Bureau, which is classified as one of the key high schools in Nanjing, China, in 1997 and as one of the key high schools in Jiangsu Province in 1999.

Yuxi Railway Station

Yuxi Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Zhao'an Railway Station

Zhao'an Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Xiashen Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.


1453 Yellow River flood

The 1453 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in the area surrounding Shawan in Shandong, China, during the Ming dynasty.

Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists

In May 2009, ACAMS signed an agreement with Fudan University in Shanghai to jointly provide anti-money laundering training throughout mainland China.

Brendan I. Koerner

It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war.

Bukichi Miki

This was a very witty statement using the story of the Buddhist monk Daruma Daishi who faced a wall in China's Shaolin Monastery and after doing zen meditation for nine years, achieved enlightenment.

Burmese roofed turtle

An individual was seen in 2007 in Qingping Market in Guangzhou, China.

China–Uganda relations

Among these is the oil company CNOOC, which early in 2012 acquired one third of the exploitation of Uganda's oil in the Albertine region of Uganda and will be involved in the construction of an oil refinery in the country.

Chinese animation

From the first film with sound The Camel's Dance to the first film of notable length Princess Iron Fan, China was relatively on pace with the rest of the world.

Crisis management

Mattel Inc., the toy maker, has been plagued with more than 28 product recalls and in Summer of 2007, amongst problems with exports from China, faced two product recalls in two weeks.

Dark retreat

All spiritual traditions have used Darkness Techniques in the pursuit of enlightenment: in Europe, the dark room appeared as a network of tunnels, in Egypt as the Pyramides, in Rome as the catacombs, by the Essenes in Israel and Taoists in China as caves.

DSPACE GmbH

The company has Project Centers in Pfaffenhofen (near Munich) and Böblingen (near Stuttgart) and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, Japan and China.

Emperor Guangwu of Han

Some Russian archaeologists have identified a Han-era Chinese-style palace unearthed near Abakan (in Southern Siberia) in 1941–45 as Lu Fang's residence after he had left China for the lands of the Xiongnu.

Flucard

In 2005, Henn Tan, the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Trek 2000 International, was on an overseas trip with his family in China.

Foreign Devils

The story begins in China, 1800, when the Doctor and his companions arrive in their time machine, the TARDIS, at the English Trade Concession in Canton.

Former Qin

Founded by the Fu family of the Di ethnicity, it completed the unification of North China in 376.

Glandular horned toad

Glandular horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad (Xenophrys glandulosa) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family found in Yunnan in China, in Nagaland in northeastern India, and in northern Kachin State, Myanmar.

Gongmao

Qing Guanmao, Qing official headwear, the headwear of officials during the Qing Dynasty in China

Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu

Wu Pak Chiu was born in Guangzhou, China, and graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1937 where he studied voice under Professor Lu Cha Zhi.

Heilind Electronics

The company further expanded internationally in 2012, first purchasing distributor Kotek Eletro Eletronica Ltda, based in São Paulo City, São Paulo, Brazil, and then later that same year opening offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Suzhou and Dongguan, China.

Herbert Taylor

Herbert Hudson Taylor (1861–1950), British Protestant Christian missionary to China

History of the Australian Army

In June, the British government sought permission from the Australian colonies to dispatch ships from the Australian Squadron to China with Naval Brigade reservists, who had been trained in both ship handling and soldiering to fulfil their coastal defence role.

Hudson Taylor

Buried 9 June 1905 in Protestant Cemetery (no longer existing) in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

Intervision Song Contest

In 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed restart of competition but this time between Russia, China and Central Asian countries which are mostly members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Josephine Teo

She began her career there in enterprise development, and was later posted to Suzhou, China, as part of EDB's pioneering team there.

La Caixa

At the end of 2007, La Caixa had 5,480 branches, of which 5,468 are located throughout Spain and two operating abroad (Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania), and 10 representative offices in Germany, Belgium, China, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Long March 2D

It is mainly launched from areas 2B and 2S at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center but can be launched from China's other satellite launch centers.

Luce Memorial Chapel

It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan in collaboration with the firm of noted architect I. M. Pei, and named in honor of the Rev. Henry W. Luce, an American missionary in China in the late 19th century and father of publisher Henry Luce.

Mahavairocana Tantra

Kūkai learned of the Mahāvairocana Tantra in 796, and travelled to China in 804 to receive instruction in it.

Michael Swaine

Michael D. Swaine, American author and expert in China security studies and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Ming Hsieh

His family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution as a part of China's upper middle class having ties with the old national government moved to Taiwan (Yingzhou, Ming's grandfather, was famous high-ranking official of Republic of China); as a result, his family was forced to move in 1966 to a small village near Panjin.

Nanning No.3 High School

High School is a premier high school located in Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Neigong

Neigong, also spelled nei kung, neigung, or nae gong, refers to any of a set of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual practice disciplines associated with Daoism and especially the Chinese martial arts.

Paradip

Paradip has been identified for development as one of the six major petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIRs) in India, along the lines of Pudong in China, Rotterdam in Europe and Houston in North America.

Philip Pan

Other topics covered by his book include China's shourong detention system, investigative journalism in China, and the publication and reception of An Investigation of China's Peasantry, by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, which was later released as Will the Boat Sink the Water (2006) in its English translation.

PIKO

PIKO manufactures its own products, at its headquarters factory in Sonneberg (Thüringen) Germany, and at its own factory, PIKO China, in Guangdong, PRC.

Pratas Islands

The Pratas Da Wang temple is dedicated to 'Kuang Kang' and 'The South China Sea Goddess'- Mazu.

Qu Yuan

The countries around China, such as Vietnam and Korea, also celebrate variations of this Dragon Boat Festival as part of their shared cultural heritage.

Rao Xueman

Rao Xueman was born in Zigong, Sichuan, China in 1972.She began writing from 14 years old.

Reena Raggi

Among the trials she presided over was one concerning the Golden Venture, a ship carrying around 300 would-be immigrants from China, which crashed-landed on a sandbar off Queens, New York in June, 1993.

Ruritania

In 2006, Ignacio Padilla published La Gruta del Toscano (ISBN 84-204-7072-4), a novel in which Ruritanians discover a cavern in the Himalayas, somewhere on the border between China and Nepal.

Sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly

In the first round of voting, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently and independently elected Giorgio Gaja (Italy), Hisashi Owada (Japan), Peter Tomka (Slovakia), and Xue Hanqin (China), but the two organs were deadlocked between two African candidates for the fifth available seat.

Skovorodino, Amur Oblast

An oil pipeline is currently under construction from Tayshet north of Lake Baikal to Skovorodino; it is intended for oil to be transported from here by rail to the port of Nakhodka on the Pacific, as well as to China.

SuperStar Aquarius

Her itineraries include one-night high sea cruises and occasionally, two-night cruises to Xiamen and Haikou, China.

T. aureus

Teinopalpus aureus, the golden kaiserihind, a butterfly species found in China and possibly Vietnam

The Book of Giants

In 1904, German expeditions to Central Asia (Turpan in present northwest China) brought back many fragments of Manichaean holy texts, some of which were identified as belonging to The Book of Giants.

Theretra silhetensis

Larvae have been recorded feeding on Colocasia antiquorum and Ludwigia species in southern China, Colocasia esculenta in Japan, Ludwigia repens and Boerhavia species in India and numerous other hostplants from elsewhere, including Arum, Caladium, Pistia, Kochia, Ipomoea, Boerhavia, Ludwigia, Rosa and Trapa species.

Wihwado

In June 2011, an agreement with China was made to establish a joint free trade area on Hwanggumpyong and Wihwa Islands, and the China border area near Dandong.

Xi Zhang

"Xi Zhang -- a traveler to the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design,all the way from Kaifeng, China  •• brought with  him  an almost  uncanny.  fully  formed spirit of contemporary Chinese painting.  This small,tight,color-splashed show at Plus Gallery sealed the deal, reminding us  that  we  had  a  skilled genius in our midst."Susan Froyd  Twelve  Denver  arts flashbacks from 2012, Westword,Dec.

Yinka Dene Alliance

On February 6, 2012, the Yinka Dene Alliance released an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao.