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unusual facts about PRC


Marcus Luttrell

The SEALs made a number of attempts to contact their combat operations center with a PRC-148 MBITR (Multi Band Inter/Intra Team Radio) and then with an Iridium Satellite Phone.


2010 Shanghai fire

Meng Jianzhu, the PRC Minister of Public Security, went to Shanghai to manage rescue operations.

Adreno

The Imageon TV will also feature support for ISDB-T and DMB standards, and multi-mode support (likely to support DMB-T/H, the dual standard implemented in PRC).

Anti-Secession Law

The Mainland Affairs Council and the ROC government has argued that the relationship across the Taiwan strait is not analogous to the situation during the American Civil War since Taiwan was never part of the PRC.

Apology for Murder

Much acclaimed B movie director Edgar G. Ulmer, who was working at PRC at the time Apology for Murder was made, claimed during an interview in 1970 that he wrote the original Single Indemnity script for producer Sigmund Neufeld.

Bange

Baingoin County (Chinese: 班戈县; Pinyin transliteration: Bāngé Xiàn), in Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC

Carl Switzer

Switzer's last starring roles were in a brief series of imitation-Bowery Boys movies; he reprised his "Alfalfa" character, complete with comically sour vocals, in PRC's Gas House Kids comedies of 1946 and 1947.

China and the United Nations

From the 1960s onwards, nations friendly to the PRC, led by the People's Republic of Albania under Enver Hoxha, moved an annual resolution in the General Assembly to expel the "representatives of Chiang Kai-shek" (an implicit reference to the ROC) and permit the PRC to represent China at the UN.

China Development Bank

As one of three policy banks of the PRC, it is primarily responsible for raising funding for large infrastructure projects, including most of the funding for the Three Gorges Dam and Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

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–Ghana relations

In the 1960s President Nkrumah lobbied for the PRC's reinstatement in the United Nations.

Chinese cash

Renminbi, the official currency of the People's Republic of China (PRC), whose principal unit is the Yuan

Chinese character encoding

An example of the problem is the Taiwanese politician Wang Jian-Hsuan whose second given name is not in some character systems, and PRC Premier Zhu Rongji whose Rong character is not in GB2312.

Chinese Consulate-General, Auckland

The Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Auckland (Chinese: 中华人民共和国奥克兰总领事馆; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Zhù Àokèlán Zŏnglĭngshìguān) is a diplomatic missions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) at 588 Great South Road in the Greenlane suburb of Auckland City, New Zealand.

Chinese National Olympic Committee

Chinese Olympic Committee (PRC), founded in 1951 as Chinese National Olympic Committee

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath

PRC: At the beginning of the war, the PRC, as ordered by Mao Zedong, sides with the USSR and initiates air strikes on US Air bases in Philippines.

Cybersectarianism

Transnational Chinese cybersects include the group commonly known in the West as Falun Gong (法轮功), Zhong Gong (中华养生益智功), and the Taiwan-based group founded by Suma Ching Hai, commonly referred to in the PRC as Guanyin Famen (观音法门), but rendered in English by the Ching Hai World Society as Quan Yin.

East Turkestan Republic

East Turkestan independence movement, in PRC-administered province of Xinjiang, popular among some Uyghur nationalists

First Taiwan Strait Crisis

President Truman later ordered John Foster Dulles, the Foreign Policy Advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, to carry out his decision on neutralizing Taiwan in drafting the Treaty of San Francisco of 1951 (the peace treaty with Japan), which excluded the participation of both the ROC and the PRC.

Gary Herbert

Peter Corroon's campaign questioned whether this was related to a $87,500 donation made by PRC to Herbert's campaign.

Glenn Duffie Shriver

In June 2010 Shriver was arrested while trying to depart Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport for China and charged with five counts of "making false statements" and one count of "willfully conspiring to provide national defense information to intelligence officers of the PRC".

History of transport in Hong Kong

The territory of Tuen Mun by then extends from western Shenzhen in the Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to western Kowloon in Hong Kong.

J. J. Pickle Research Campus

In 2003, the UT System Board of Regents and Simon Property Group reached a $130 million lease agreement under which Simon would build a shopping mall on 46 acres (186,000 m²) of unused PRC land along Loop 1 and across from another Simon Property Group venture - The Domain.

James Munro Bertram

In Peking Bertram studied Chinese including at Yenching University where one of the men he shared a room with was Wang Ju-mei who was later to be better known under his Communist Party name of Huang Hua as the longest-serving foreign minister of the PRC after Zhou Enlai.

Katrina Leung

In 1982, FBI Special Agent James J. Smith re-opened the FBI investigation into Leung hoping that she could provide him with additional information on the PRC activist as well as other miscellaneous information.

Leapfrogging

The city of Rizhao in China is an example of energy leapfrogging on city level.

Li Daoyu

A descendant of Li Hongzhang, Li graduated from the University of Shanghai in 1952, and entered the foreign ministry of PRC.

Linzhou

Linzhou Steel (林州钢铁), state-owned steel company established in Henan, PRC in 1969

Ludian

Ludian County (鲁甸), in Zhaotong, Yunnan, People's Republic of China (PRC)

Macao Special Administrative Region passport

According to the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China and the Explanations of some questions by the Standing Committee of the PRC National People's Congress concerning the implementation of the Nationality Law in the Macau SAR, any Macau SAR permanent resident holding Chinese nationality can apply for the Macau SAR passport.

Machine Gun Mama

It was PRC's attempt to feature a comedy team to compete with Universal's Abbott and Costello and Paramount's Road to … movies and their entry in the Good Neighbor Policy film genre of the time where the United States presented both a positive image to Latin and South America as well as stimulating American tourism to the region.

Mitochondrial biogenesis

The master regulators of mitochondrial biogenesis appear to be the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PGC) family of transcriptional coactivators, including PGC-1α, PGC-1β, and the PGC-related coactivator, PRC.

Movement of Unitarian Communists

It was founded in June 1995 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) by those Communist MPs who had voted the vote of confidence in the government of Lamberto Dini (supported also by the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), the Italian People's Party and the Northern League) in March 1995.

Narciso Bravo, Jr.

He took up civil engineering at Aquinas University of Legazpi City and graduated in 1986 and passed the PRC licensure examination on the same year.

National symbols of the Republic of China

He is highly honored in both the ROC and the PRC, as in the ROC, presidents take oath in front of Dr. Sun's portrait, and Dr. Sun's portrait is displayed during National Day Celebrations, and in the PRC, his portrait is also displayed during the flag-raising on National Day.

Nerio Nesi

In 1998, however, broke away from the party of Fausto Bertinotti, as opposed to the distrust that the PRC gave to Romano Prodi and joined the Party of Italian Communists.

PIKO

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

Qinornis

It is known from a single fossil specimen consisting of a partial hind limb and foot, which was found in Fangou Formation deposits in Luonan County, PRC.

Radar-absorbent material

The Republic of China (Taiwan)'s military has also successfully developed radar-absorbing paint which is currently used on Taiwanese stealth warships and the Taiwanese built stealth jet fighter which is currently in development in response to the development of stealth technology by their rival the mainland People's Republic of China (PRC) which is known to have displayed both stealth warships and planes to the public.

Raymond Huo

Following Russel Norman's controversial protest to PRC Vice President Xi Jinping during Xi's 2010 visit to New Zealand, Huo write a blog entry defending Chinese rule over Tibet.

Reamde

With information Zula obtains from her employer, they travel to Xiamen, PRC to track down those behind Reamde and kill them.

Shouters

The Shouters, an offshoot Chinese Christian group labelled as a Christian sect by the PRC

Succession of states

However, the full succession of the PRC as the state of China was not initially recognized by many states because the ROC has still existed on the island of Taiwan and other islands, such as Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu.

Terrorism in China

Since the September 11 attacks in 2001, the PRC government has strengthened its involvement in multilateral and bilateral 'counter-terrorism' efforts.

Tibetan independence movement

The PRC also points to what it calls the autocratic and theocratic policies of the government of Tibet before 1959, as well as its renunciation of South Tibet, claimed by China as a part of historical Tibet occupied by India, as well as the Dalai Lama's association with India, and as such claims the CTA has no moral legitimacy to govern Tibet.

Time in China

Although the only official time zone in the PRC is Beijing Time, the People's Congress of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, due to its geographical location in the westernmost part of the country, proclaimed Ürümqi Time (UTC+6), two hours behind Beijing.

Tiu Keng Leng

The area used to be a refugee village housing former Kuomintang officials and follower who escaped to Hong Kong from Mainland China after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC); however, the original Rennie's Mill village was cleared before Hong Kong's sovereignty transfer to the PRC in 1997, and nowadays Tiu Keng Leng is thoroughly redeveloped as part of the Tseung Kwan O New Town.

Tuanpai

Hu Jintao, former CPC General Secretary, former PRC President

Zhang Xinsheng

1986-1989, he was the Deputy Director of the National Tourism Administration, PRC.


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