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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China 00:03:33 1 Names 00:05:45 2 History 00:05:53 2.1 Prehistory 00:07:01 2.2 Early dynastic rule 00:08:25 2.3 Imperial China 00:14:41 2.4 End of dynastic rule 00:17:21 2.5 Republic of China (1912–1949) 00:20:40 2.6 People's Republic of China (1949–present) 00:25:08 3 Geography 00:26:08 3.1 Landscape and climate 00:28:43 3.2 Biodiversity 00:31:29 3.3 Environmental issues 00:35:06 3.4 Political geography 00:36:57 4 Politics 00:38:14 4.1 Communist Party 00:39:25 4.2 Government 00:40:48 4.3 Administrative divisions 00:41:54 4.4 Foreign relations 00:43:54 4.4.1 Trade relations 00:45:52 4.4.2 Territorial disputes 00:47:25 4.4.3 Emerging superpower status 00:48:16 4.5 Sociopolitical issues, human rights and reform 00:55:24 5 Military 00:59:09 6 Economy 01:02:08 6.1 Economic history and growth 01:09:00 6.2 China in the global economy 01:12:15 6.3 Class and income inequality 01:14:18 7 Science and technology 01:14:28 7.1 Historical 01:15:47 7.2 Modern era 01:19:59 8 Infrastructure 01:20:19 8.1 Telecommunications 01:24:19 8.2 Transport 01:29:50 8.3 Water supply and sanitation 01:30:39 9 Demographics 01:34:18 9.1 Ethnic groups 01:35:50 9.2 Languages 01:38:15 9.3 Urbanization 01:39:46 9.4 Education 01:42:33 9.5 Health 01:45:07 9.6 Religion 01:48:22 10 Culture 01:51:12 10.1 Literature 01:53:19 10.2 Cuisine 01:55:00 10.3 Sports 01:58:05 11 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8804383812189197 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 (de jure 23) provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. China emerged as one of the world's earliest civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BC until 220 AD, saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and Horn of Africa. Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when a republic replaced the Qing dynasty. The Chinese Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949, when the Communist Party of China established the People's Republic of China, a unitary one-party sovereign state on Mainland China, while the Kuomintang-led government retreated to the island of Taiwan. The political status of Taiwan remains disputed. Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China's economy has been one of the world's fastest-growing with annual growth rates consistently above 6 percent. According to the World Bank, China's GDP grew from $150 billion in 1978 to $12.24 trillion by 2017. Since 2010, China has been the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP and, since 2014, the largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). China is also the world's largest exporter and seco ... |