Global Network China

GN Code: GNCHN

Contact: Wei Wang

About China

National name: Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo

Language: Standard Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages

Capital: Beijing

Government type: Communist state

National holiday: Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, 1 October (1949)

Currency: Yuan/Renminbi

Area: 3,705,407 sq. mile (9,596,960 sq. km)

Population: (2006 est.) 1,313,973,713

Population density: per sq. mile: 365

Age structure:
0-14 years: 20.8%
15-64 years: 71.4%
65 years and over: 7.7%

Median age:
total: 32.7 years
male: 32.3 years
female: 33.2 years

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2005 est.): $8.182 trillion; per capita $6,300

Labor force: 791.4 million (2003); agriculture 49%, industry 22%, services 29% (2003 est.)

Natural resources: coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential (world’s largest)

Industries: mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites

Exports: $752.2 billion f.o.b.(2005 est.)

Exports commodities:machinery and equipment, plastics, optical and medical equipment, iron and steal

Imports: $631.8 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)

Imports commodities:machinery and equipment, oil and mineral fuels, plastics, optical and medical equipment, organic chemicals, iron and steel

 

 
 
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