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Lauded for its progress since its establishment in 1949, courted for its economic potential, excoriated for its human rights record, China is Asia's sleeping giant – the world's most populous country (1.25 billion and counting) but still one which has a fair way to go before it takes its true place on the international stage.
The prodigious leaps from feudalists to communist to capitalist have greatly enhanced the PRC, and for much of the past half century, China has been the world's fastest-growing economy. Yet it remains poor in many parts – there are sharps divisions between rural areas and the cities, the rich coast and the poor interior, and schisms within the political elite. But just as staging the Olympics in Seoul catapulted South Korea to prominence, so the 2008 Olympic Games should give Beijing the necessary fillip to show that it too can host the planet's most prestigious sporting event with requisite efficiency and panache.
As might be expected from a country with 9,561,000 square kilometres at its
disposal, there is an enormous amount to see and do in China (too much to mention
here), whether showcasing thousands of years of culture or something that was
only built last year. Beijing's attractions lie not merely in trophy sights
like the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, but also in its
'hutongs', the maze of residential streets just out of the centre that are gradually
being swept away in the name of development. Tianjin, to the east of the capital,
is a former treaty port and hosts one of the country's most intriguing antique
markets. A former German concession, Qingdao was Mao Zedong's favourite seaside
holiday spot, and Chinese still flock to its beaches – backed by statuesque
and very Germanic mansions – every summer. Shanghai is widely touted as
China's 'Next Big Thing', a hotchpotch of new energetic capitalism and construction,
with an exotic and varied nightlife. Slightly inland, Hangzhou caught Marco
Polo's eye when he passed through in the 13th century ('one of the most splendid
cities in the world') and, despite the onslaught of tourism, its lakes and temples
are still utterly picturesque.
Zhenhai Tower, Guangzhou
Shenzhen, on the border with Hong Kong, has gone from 99 percent paddy fields
to 99 percent concrete in the space of 20 years, a Special Economic Zone that
could be a metaphor for the new China. Inland, there are panoramic vistas in
Guilin, the Terracotta Warriors in Xian, Tibetan highs in Lhasa and seemingly
a different country altogether in the far western city of Umurqi.
Gone are the days of staying in grubby, Soviet-style dormitories, an alarming prospect that greeted China's first foreign visitors when the country started to open up in the late 1970s. True, some of its lesser hotels are behind when its comes to basic requirements like hot water and clean sheets, but nowadays all the major cities host a crop of 5-star – or at least some very acceptable 4-star – properties. Boutique hotels are making their first appearance around Beijing, and properties like the Grand Hyatt Shanghai (the tallest hotel in the world) are setting a trend that other cities can only hope to emulate.
Gone too are the days of foreign visitors being stared at as if they were on
day release from some anthropological zoo. You are likely to attract some attention
at tourist spots – if only to be included in a friendly souvenir photograph
– and if you wander off the beaten track you can expect to be quizzed
enthusiastically. Many young Chinese are keen to practice their English and
other languages, and Beijing – in the run-up to the Olympics – is
making a concerted attempt to drum some basic foreign words and phrases into
its public officials.
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China is a cultural region, ancient civilization, and nation in East Asia. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. The stalemate of the last Chinese Civil War has resulted in two political entities using the name China: the People's Republic of China (PRC), administering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; and the Republic of China (ROC), administering Taiwan and its surrounding islands. See Political status of Taiwan.
China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations. It has the world's
longest continuously used written language system, and is said to be the source
of some of the world's great inventions, including the 'Four Great Inventions
of ancient China': paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
Top-level political divisions of China have altered as administrations changed.
Top levels included circuits and provinces. Below that, there have been prefectures,
subprefectures, departments, commanderies, districts, and counties. Recent divisions
also include prefecture-level cities, county-level cities, towns and townships.
Most Chinese dynasties were based in the historical heartlands of China, known as China proper. Various dynasties also expanded into peripheral territories like Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Xinjiang, and Tibet. The Manchu-established Qing Dynasty and its successors, the ROC and the PRC, incorporated these territories into China. China proper is generally thought to be bounded by the Great Wall and the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Manchuria and Inner Mongolia are found to the north of the Great Wall of China, and the boundary between them can either be taken as the present border between Inner Mongolia and the northeast Chinese provinces, or the more historic border of the World War II-era puppet state of Manchukuo. Xinjiang's borders correspond to today's administrative Xinjiang. Historic Tibet occupies all of the Tibetan Plateau. China is traditionally divided into the boundary being the Huai River and Qinling Mountains.
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