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National Color: Red and Yellow
National Animal: The Giant Panda National Song: "The East is Red" National Fruit: Kiwifruit National Game: Table Tennis
Let our flesh and blood forge our new Great Wall! As the Chinese people have arrived at their most dangerous time, Every person is forced to expel his very last cry. Arise! Arise! Arise! Our million hearts beating as one, Brave the enemy's fire, March on! Brave the enemy's fire, March on! March on! March on! On!
China has brought forth a Mao Zedong. He works for the people's welfare. Hurrah, He is the people's great savior! (Repeat last two lines) Chairman Mao loves the people. He is our guide To build a new China. Hurrah, he leads us forward! (Repeat last two lines) The Communist Party is like the sun. Wherever it shines, it is bright. Wherever there is a Communist Party, Hurrah, there the people are liberated! (Repeat last two lines)
1 October 1949
(People's Republic of China established) notable earlier dates: 221 BC (Qing Dynasty replaced by the Republic of China) Government - Prime Minister - Wen Jiabao  China has only one Time Zone: (UTC+8)
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People's Republic of China
中华人民共和国[a] Zhōnghuá Rénmín GònghéguóBeijing
 Exchange Rate: 6.9966 RMB = 1USDMandarin (or Putonghua)
1,336 million (July 2011 est.)
total area: 9,596,961 sq km
land: 9,569,901 sq km water: 27,060 sq km
Total: 22,117 km
Afghanistan - 76 km Bhutan - 470 km Burma - 2,185 km India - 3,380 km Kazakhstan - 1,533 km North Korea - 1,416 km Kyrgyzstan - 858 km Laos - 423 km Mongolia - 4,677 km Nepal - 1,236 km Pakistan - 523 km Russia (northeast) - 3,605 km Russia (northwest) - 40 km Tajikistan - 414 km Vietnam - 1,281 kmAnhui
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GDP - per capita (PPP):
$7,600 (2010 est.)
extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
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lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m
highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m
Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China
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