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65 unusual facts about 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.

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: 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.

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

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.

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.

Hanchuan Railway Station

Hanchuan Railway Station is a future railway station located in Hanchuan City, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Hanyi Railway which will be operated by Wuhan 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.

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'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.

Huizhounan Railway Station

Huizhou South 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.

Jiaomei Railway Station

Xinjiaomei 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.

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.

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.

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.

Nanjing Foreign Language School

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Project Hope

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

Puning Railway Station

Puning 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.

Putian Railway Station

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

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.

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.

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.

Shapu Railway Station

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

Suining Railway Station

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

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.

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.

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.

Xiaopin

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

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.

You River

The You River may refer to different rivers within China.

Yueyang East Railway Station

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

Zenith Oilfield Technology

Zenith was founded in 2003 and has headquarters in Inverurie, United Kingdom as well as offices in the Middle East, North Africa, China and Southeast Asia.


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.

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.

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.

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.

Burmese roofed turtle

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

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

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.

China's Wikipedia

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

Chinese hip hop

In the late 90s Hong Kong's Softhard and LMF were influential though their Cantonese dialect was foreign to Mandarin speaking regions, while Taiwan's MC HotDog, Da Xi Men, and Da Zhi were more widely intelligible in mainland China.

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.

Chuni

Chuni, Sichuan, a town in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China

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.

Dai Min

Dai Min and Milligan-Whyte are the co-hosts of ChinaSmartMagazine.com, the first installment of which was footage of meetings negotiating the Proposed US China Grand Strategy Agreement.

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.

Empress of China

RMS Empress of China, three Canadian Pacific Steamships ocean liners, one from 1891 to 1912, the other two briefly named Empress of China in 1921

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.

Gungsangnorbu

In 1912, in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, Gungsangnorbu made some attempts to form an alliance with Bogd Khan and the Khalkha Mongols in the newly independent state of Mongolia, with the Pan-Mongolist aim of annexing China's Inner Mongolian territories to an independent, Mongol-dominated Greater Mongolia.

Hanchang

Yueyang, Hunan Province, China - anciently called Hanchang

History of Sino-Japanese relations

Fried fish or meatballs (such as Satsuma age) are also traditionally from Southern China (mainly Zhejiang and Fujian).

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.

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.

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.

Low-speed vehicle

4 e-jeeps were launched by Jejomar Binay on 2007, with 2 prototypes from Guangzhou Langqing Electric Car Co., Ltd., China at P 371,280 each.

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.

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.

Qijia

Qijia culture, early Bronze Age culture distributed around western Gansu and eastern Qinghai, China

R. chinensis

Rosa chinensis, the China rose, a plant species native to central China

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.

Robert Forbes

Robert Bennet Forbes (1804–1889), sea captain, China merchant, ship owner, and writer

Rosana Simón

In the gold medal match, Simón beat Liu Rui of China 6-4, landing a game-leading 3-point kick to the head against the Chinese opponent and knocking her down with 15 seconds left in the final round.

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.

Shanghai Airport

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

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.

SS Escambia

The casualties included Chief Officer Stephen George of Wales, Second Officer John Simpson of Liverpool, Third Officer J. Meyler of London, Chief Engineer James Sturrock, Second Engineer P. Walker, all the stokers (most of whom were Chinese), other hands, and a passenger named O. Detchon of South Shields.

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.

Type 074 medium landing ship

The primary improvement of Type 271III LCU over Type 271IID is that its propulsion system was German origin (MAN SE), and China license produced it to greatly increase the reliability and service life of engine.

Witold Gerutto

Witold Gerutto (1 October 1912 in Harbin, China – 13 October 1973 in Konstancin) was a Polish shot putter and decathlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Yinka Dene Alliance

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

Yuneec International EViva

The Yuneec EViva is a Chinese low-wing, two-seat motor glider that was designed by Martin Wezel is now under development by Yuneec International of Kunshan, Jiangsu.