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China.

Business Forum • Summer-Fall, 1999 •

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

Source: www.infoplease.com[C]2001 - Learning Network


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