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China Data

Area:
9,596,960 sq km
( The world's fourth-largest country, after Russia, Canada, and US)

Popoulation:
1,261,832,482 (July 2000 est.)
(The world's most populous nation)

Elevation Extremes:
lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m
highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m (The earth's highest point)

Land Use:
arable land: 10%
permanent crops: 0%
permanent pastures: 43%
forests and woodland: 14%
other: 33% (1993 est.)

Ethnic Groups:
Han Chinese, 91.9%; Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and about forty other nationalities, 8.1%

Country Offical Name:
People's Republic of China

Capital:
Beijing

Administrative Divisions:
23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, four centrally governed municipalities. (One of the provinces, Taiwan, claims its rule of china as the Republic of China).

National Day:
October 1 (1949)

GDP:
$4.8 trillion (1999)

GDP Growth Rate:
7% (1999)

GDP Per Capita:
$3,800 (1999)

GDP Composition By Sector:
agriculture: 15%
industry: 35%
services: 50% (1999)

Electricity Production:
1.16 trillion kWh (1998)

Electricity Production By Source:
fossil fuel: 80.31%
hydro: 18.46%
nuclear: 1.23%
other: 0% (1998)

Agriculture Products:
rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish

Exports:
$194.9 billion (1999)

Export Commodities:
machinery and equipment; textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting goods; mineral fuels, chemicals

Export Partners:
US 22%, Hong Kong 19%, Japan 17%, Germany, South Korea, Netherlands, UK, Singapore, Taiwan (1999)

Imports:
$165.8 billion (1999)

Import Commodities:
machinery and equipment, plastics, chemicals, iron and steel, mineral fuels

Import Partners:
Japan 20%, US 12%, Taiwan 12%, South Korea 10%, Germany, Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore (1999)

Currency:
Yuan

Currency Exchange Rates:
US$1.00 = RMBY8.27