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71 unusual facts about China


Battle of Taku Forts

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

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.

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.

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-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-Japan Supermatches

The tournament was hosted by NEC; it began in 1984, and has been held 13 times until 1997.

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 Wikipedia

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

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Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China, the People's Republic of China's policy of preventing access to Wikipedia from within the country

Dalian University of Technology

It is also one of the national key universities administered directly under the Ministry of Education of China.

Dong Dajie

Dong Dajie (东大街), meaning "Eastern Avenue" in Chinese, is the name of several main roads and markets in China.

Faculty of International Relations, Belarusian State University

In late 2003, at the Department of Oriental Languages Department was opened National Center for Chinese Studies, "Character" (from 2006 Confucius Institute).

Francesco Brancati

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

Fuding Railway Station

Fuding 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.

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.

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.

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.

Houmen Railway Station

Houmen 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.

Hui Cheung-ching

Hui Cheung-ching, SBS, JP (4 September 1942, Puning, Guangdong, China – 6 January 2005, Hong Kong) was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1998–2004 for the Import and Export constituency.

Hui nationality

Hui people, the current designation for Chinese language speaking people descended from foreign Muslims, who may or may not be practicing the religion of Islam, as recognized by the People's Republic of China

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.

Huidong Railway Station

Huidong 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 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.

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.

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.

Luotian Railway Station

Luotian Station is a railway station located in Luotian Town, Wanzhou District, Chongqing Municipality, 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.

Martha M. Foster

Foster's continuing relationship with Chinese documentary television professionals began in 1997, when professor Ren Yuan of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now the Communication University of China) brought Chinese documentaries to show at the Windy City International Documentary Festival in Chicago, which Foster founded and directed.

Meili Yinyuehui

It consists of one disc with eight songs and a second disc with ten songs in a sort of modernized Chinese form.

Nanjing Foreign Language School

Nanjing Foreign Language School is widely recognized as one of the best middle/high schools in China, especially for its tradition of feeding talents to prestigious universities in China and abroad.

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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.

Nanning No.3 High School

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

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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.

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.

One-child policy

Children born in overseas countries are not counted under the policy if they do not obtain Chinese citizenship.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Romantic Energy

It consists of seventeen songs in a sort of modernized Chinese form.

Rudolf Schulten

The technology is currently being developed mainly in China who currently operate a 10 MW test reactor of this type.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


1935 in archaeology

December: Chinese prehistorian Jia Lanpo appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, 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.

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.

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.

China Northern Airlines

China Northern Airlines (simplified Chinese: 中国北方航空; pinyin: Zhōngguó Běifāng Hángkōng), was an airline headquartered on the grounds of Dongta Airport, Dadong District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Heilind Electronics

The company further expanded internationally in 2012, first purchasing distributor Kotek Eletro Eletronica Ltda, based in São Paulo City, São Paulo, Brazil, and then later that same year opening offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Suzhou and Dongguan, China.

Herbert Taylor

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

History of the Australian Army

In June, the British government sought permission from the Australian colonies to dispatch ships from the Australian Squadron to China with Naval Brigade reservists, who had been trained in both ship handling and soldiering to fulfil their coastal defence role.

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Kazuo Aoki: Administrator of Manchurian affairs; Minister of Treasury in Nobuyoki Abe's cabinet; followed Abe to China as an advisor; Minister of Greater East Asia in the Tojo cabinet

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.

Josephine Teo

She began her career there in enterprise development, and was later posted to Suzhou, China, as part of EDB's pioneering team there.

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

Neigong

Neigong, also spelled nei kung, neigung, or nae gong, refers to any of a set of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual practice disciplines associated with Daoism and especially the Chinese martial arts.

Oil shale in China

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

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.

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.

Pratas Islands

The Pratas Da Wang temple is dedicated to 'Kuang Kang' and 'The South China Sea Goddess'- Mazu.

R. chinensis

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

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.

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

Song to the Auspicious Cloud

Several puppet governments established by the Japanese army, such as Provisional Government of the Republic of China, Reformed Government of the Republic of China, also used this anthem, as these puppet state recommissioned all the old Republic of China national symbols before Kuomintang came to power in 1928.

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.

Wall gun

Bolt action wall guns firing metallic cartridges were used in India and China in the late 19th century.

Wihwado

In June 2011, an agreement with China was made to establish a joint free trade area on Hwanggumpyong and Wihwa Islands, and the China border area near Dandong.

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.

Yao Lifa

Yao Lifa, born in 1958, in Qianjiang City in the central province of Hubei, China, is apparently the first person in China elected through self-nomination to a municipal-level people’s congress.

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.