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74 unusual facts about China


Battle of Taku Forts

Throughout history there have been several battles over control of the Taku Forts in China

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.

Cascar

Kashgar An oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur region of the Peoples Republic of China

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.

Changshou North Railway Station

Changshou North Railway 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.

Chexi Railway Station

Chexi 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.

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-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: The Panda Adventure

Set in 1936 China, Ruth Harkness has come to settle the affairs of her husband, Bill, who died while observing the rare and unstudied panda bear.

China: The Roots of Madness

The film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American's perspective, covering 170 years of China's political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution.

China's Schindler

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

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.

Francesco Brancati

Francesco Brancati (1607 in Sicily – 1671 in China) was an Italian Jesuit missionary.

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.

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

Gerd Kaminski

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

Graduation Examination of Junior High School

The Graduation Examination of Junior High School is an academic examination held annually in parts of mainland China to determine graduation from junior high school.

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.

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.

Jingkou Railway Station

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

Kuitan Railway Station

Kueitan 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.

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.

Lianjiang Railway Station

LianjiangRailway 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.

Liuzhou Senior High School

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

Louis Chu

After emigrating to New Jersey from Toishan, China, Chu completed his high school education and went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Upsala College and a master's degree in sociology from New York University.

Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology

Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology (洛阳理工学院) is an educational institute in the Chinese city of Luoyang.

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.

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.

Nanjing Foreign Language School

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

Nanjing Foreign Language School, (NFLS, Simplified Chinese: 南京外国语学校, or Nan-Wai (南外) for short), is a middle and high school located in Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.

Nanjing Ninghai Middle School

Nanjing Ninghai Middle School, founded in 1890 as Wen Zheng Academy, is a middle school in Jiangsu Province, China.

National symbols of the Republic of China

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) became the first president of the ROC in 1912, and proposed the Three Principles of the People and the Four-Stage Theory of the Republic of China, which served as the foundation of the Northern Expedition.

This is the current list of the National Symbols of the Republic of China

Neican

According to Chinese news media regulations, any matter that media outlets believe would harm the image of the Communist Party of China or its government, threaten social stability and unity, or other matters not suitable for open publication, such as corruption, social unrest, and large-scale business swindles, should be reported internally rather than publicly.

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.

Ningde Railway Station

Ningde 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.

One-child policy

In accordance with China's affirmative action policies towards ethnic minorities, all non-Han ethnic groups are subjected to different laws and are usually allowed to have two children in urban areas, and three or four in rural areas.

The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and the National Health and Family Planning Commission were made defunct and a new single agency National Health and Family Planning Commission took over national health and family planning policies in 2013.

Project Hope

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

Qianchang Railway Station

Qianchang 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.

Qianjiang Railway Station

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

Qingkou Railway Station

Qingkou 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.

Qiyueshan Railway Station

Qiyueshan 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.

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.

Raoping Railway Station

Raoping 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.

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.

Sanxing Railway Station

Sanxing Railway Station is a railway station located in Sichuan, People's Republic of China, on the Suiyu Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

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.

Shizhu Railway Station

Shizhu Railway Station is a railway station currently being built in Chongqing City, People's Republic of China, on the Yuli Railway operated by the Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

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.

Sungrow

Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd was founded in 1997 and is based in Hefei, China.

Suzhou Polytechnic Institute of Agriculture

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

Tianlong Tunbao town

Tianlong Tunbao (also spelled Tunpu) (simplified Chinese:天龙屯堡) is an historic town and tourist attraction located near Anshun city of Guizhou province in China.

Tongnan Railway Station

Tongnan Railway 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.

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.

Wuqiao Railway Station

Wuqiao 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.

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.

Xiapu Railway Station

Xiapu 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.

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.

Yueyang East Railway Station

The Yueyang East Railway Station (Chinese: 岳阳东站) is a railway station located in Hunan, China.

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.


2005–06 CBA season

Also, all-star games were played against the KBL, on January 22, 2006 in Korea and January 24, 2006 in Jiyuan, Henan, China.

An Wang

A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from Chiao Tung University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1940.

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.

Beijing United Family Hospital

The hospital is staffed by a team of over 100 doctors from 20 different countries, including the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Australia.

Black Bat Squadron

On 19 June 1963, a RB-69A/P2V-7U(7105/141233/54-4041) was conducting ELINT mission over mainland China, and was shot down by PLAAF MiG-17PF over Linchuan, Jiangxi, after intercepted repeatedly by multiple MiG-17PFs and Tu-4Ps.

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.

BYD Qin

The BYD Qin concept car was unveiled at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, and the car is named after China's first empire, the Qin Dynasty.

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.

Chinoiserie

While classical styles reigned in the parade rooms, upscale houses, from Badminton House (where the "Chinese Bedroom" was furnished by William and John Linnell, ca 1754) and Nostell Priory to Casa Loma in Toronto, sometimes feature an entire guest room decorated in the chinoiserie style, complete with Chinese-styled bed, phoenix-themed wallpaper, and china.

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.

Erik Reece

It includes the work of modern American poets (among them, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Charles Wright) plus that of four classical Chinese poets, who wandered and wrote about an area of southeastern China that is similar in landscape and ecology to the eastern woodlands of the United States.

Erik Zürcher

In 1962 he became professor of history of East Asia, particularly the Chinese Buddhism, Chinese reactions to the Christianity and early relations between China and the outside world.

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.

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

Geography of Guam

: Commercial fishing (mostly servicing and unloading of longline fleets and commercial vessels), recreational fishing of Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin (Makaira mazara), Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), and deepwater reef fish, tourism (especially from Japan but increasingly from China and South Korea).

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.

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.

Hanchang

Yueyang, Hunan Province, China - anciently called Hanchang

Hardware certification

Big established enterprises like Cisco, Novell, Sun Microsystems etc., no longer manufacture all the hardware required in the market, instead they ‘license’ or ‘certify’ small hardware players operating out from countries like Taiwan or China.

Herbert Taylor

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

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.

INTO University Partnerships

INTO has also set up university partnerships with three institutions in China: Nankai University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Dongbei University of Finance and Economics.

Jaroslav Průšek

He was sent to China and Japan in 1930s, and he had made friends with many Chinese intellectuals, including Lu Xun.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

Legal history of Chinese Americans

Emperor Qianlong wrote a letter to Queen Victoria to say that China has everything and that there is no need to do business with the United Kingdom.

Li Delun

In the ensuing years, Li served as a bridge between musicians from China and abroad, performing with artists such as David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Yo-Yo Ma, Fou Tsong, Liu Shikun, Yin Chengzong and many others.

Lianhuanhua

Lianhuanhua (Chinese: 连环画 (Simplified) 連環畫 (Traditional); Pinyin: Liánhuánhuà or 連環圖) is a palm-size picture book of sequential drawings found in China in the early 20th century, and they were once used as political/propaganda tool for the Communist Party of China.

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.

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

Michele Aerden

Professor Muhammad Yunus (micro credits) Dr Bertrand Piccard (ballooner) Madame WU Yi, (vice-President China Republic of people) Michelle Bachelet (President of Chilli)etc.

Miss China

Miss Universe China, a beauty pageant that selects China's representative to Miss Universe.

Nanning No.3 High School

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

New South China Mall

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green made a short film about the South China Mall called "Utopia Part 3: the World's Largest Shopping Mall." The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS's documentary series POV.

Oil shale in China

The main oil shale research institution in China is the China University of Petroleum.

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.

Pekingese

Foo Dog, dog breeds originating in China that resemble Chinese guardian lions and hence are also called Foo or Fu Dogs or Lion Dogs.

Ping Chong

Cathay was set in China and used three interconnected stories to explore three eras of Chinese history: the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and contemporary China today.

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.

Shanghai Airport

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, which primarily serves other destinations within China

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.

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The Dragon Pearl

The Dragon Pearl is a 2011 family film that follows the story of two teenagers who meet in China to encounter a real live Chinese dragon, and also discover the mystery behind the whereabouts of his all powerful pearl.

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.