Population: 1,273,111,290.
Birth rate: 16.0/1000
Density per square mile: 344
Infant mortality rate: 28.1/1000
Ethnic groups: 56
Capital: Beijing, pop. 8,450,000 metro area
Languages: Chinese, Mandarin, local dialects
Ethnicity/race: Primarily Han Chinese, 91.9%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP - $4.8 trillion
Per capita - $3,800
Real growth rate - 7%
Inflation - 1.3%
Unemployment - 10%
Arable land - 10%
SOEs - 110,000
Agriculture - rice, wheat, potatoes, vegetables, sweet potatoes,
sorghum; peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed, pork, fish
Labor force - 700 million: agriculture (forest and fishing), 50%;
industry, 24%; services, 26%
Industries - iron and steel, coal, machine building, armaments,
textiles and apparel, petroleum, cement, chemical fertilizers, footwear,
toys, food processing, automobiles, consumer electronics,
telecommunications
Natural resources - coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas,
mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium,
magnetite aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential
(world's largest)
Exports - $194.9 billion (f.o.b, 1999): machinery and equipment:
textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting goods, mineral fuels,
chemicals
Imports - $1658 billion (c.t.f., 1999): machinery and equipment,
plastics, chemicals; iron and steel, mineral fuels
Communications: Telephones - 110 million
Major trading partners - United States, Hong Kong Japan Germany,
South Korea, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Singapore, Taiwan, Russia
Mobile cellular - 23.4 million
Radio stations - AM 369 FM 259, short wave 45
Radios - 417 million
Television stations - 3,240
Televisions - 400 million
Internet Service Providers - 3
Transportation: Railways - 68,000 km
Highways - 1.21 million km, paved, 271,300 km; unpaved, 938,700 km
Waterways: 110,000 km navigable
Ports and harbors - Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Huangpu,
Lianyungang, Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Quingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai,
Shantou, Tianjin, Ximen, Xingang, Yantai, Zhanjiang
Airports - 206
Largest cities: Shanghai, 11,800,000
Hong Kong, 6,750.000
Tianjin, 5,350,000
Shenyang, 4,669,737
Wuhan, 4,040,113
Guangzhou, 3,935193
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