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1、中国与中国文化CHINAandCHINESECULTURE(ReferencesandLinksattheEnd)1.Population:1.3billion(2001)People:Majority–“Han”(94%ontheChineseMainland,97%onTaiwan–soTaiwanis“moreChinese”thantheMainland)Other55minorities,mostlyinsouthwestandnorthwestChina2.Language:Chinese–writtenandspokenWrittenChinese:Chinesech
2、aracters(汉Han字Zi)havebeenusedsincebetweenShangandZhoudynasty16th-11thcenturyB.C.SpokenChinese:-Mandarinisthebiggestgroup;eightothers(dialects)likeCantonese(spokeninGuangdong/CantonandHongKong),Fujianese(or“Hokkieness”,spokeninFujian/HokkienandTaiwan),etc.,mostofwhichspokeninsouthernChina.Eachm
3、ajordialectinturnhassmaller“branches”thatdeviatealittlebitfromoneanother-TheChinesedialectshavealmostthesamegrammar,withdifferencesinpronunciations.Therefore,CantoneseisNOTanotherlanguagefromMandarin,norisFujianese/”Hokkienese”–theyareonlydialectsorvariationsinpronunciationsinthebiggroupofChin
4、ese.3.Land:9.6millionsqkm(3.7millionsqmi)–3rdlargestintheworld(followingRussiaandCanada)–aboutthesameshapeastheU.S.§BeijingisaboutwherePhiladelphiais§Shanghai–aboutatthecoastofN.Carolina§HongKong–aboutHouston§Taiwan–aboutsouthFlorida§MyhometownXiamen–aboutnorthFlorida(100milestoTaiwan)–widevar
5、iationofclimatesandterrene4.Economy:2003GDP-11.69trillionYuan(about$1.4trillion),sixthlargestintheworld(followingUS,Japan,Germany,France,andUK)GDPgrowthrate2003–9.1%GDPpercapita–about$1050.GDPpercapitausing“purchasingpowerparity”–about$4,500-5,000Totalimport/export-$600billionTotalmanufacturin
6、gGDP:5.36trillionYuan($650billion),amongwhich1.94trillionYuan($234billion)werefromstate-ownedcompanies(about36%).Therefore,China’smajorsectorofeconomy–manufacturing–isonlyabout1/3ownedbythegovernment,afarcryfromnearly90%20yearsago.Privatecompaniesandforeign-investedcompaniesnowaccountfornearly
7、2/3oftheoutputsofthecountry’smanufacturingindustries.5.NumberofInternetusers:79.5million(December2003),thesecondlargestintheworld(onlyaftertheUnitedStates).Thenumberofbroadbandusers:17.4million.ChronologyofChineseDynasties(partial;onlys
