Why? Because this country is lead by a very strong government.

Our government is full of corruption,

like najib’s 1mdb, lim guan eng’s Penang undersea tunnel scandal, especially rosmah eats a lot of our
country’s money. But china’s anti corrupton is so successful by the strong attitude of anti corruption
of xi jinping. Besides politics, china has enormous amount of beautiful cultural. We will discuss it
later.

Basic knowledge of China’s geography

OFFICIAL NAME: People”s Republic of China

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Communist state led by The Communist Party of China

CAPITAL: Beijing (Peking)

POPULATION: 1,393,783,836

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Chinese, Mandarin

MONEY: Yuan (or Renminbi)

MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Himalayas

MAJOR RIVERS: Yangtze, Yellow

The two main rivers are the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, which both flow from
west to east. At 6,300 kilometres long, the Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the
third longest in the world.

China is a country located in East Asia with an area of 9,596,960 km²

China is a 4th largest country in the world

China is the most populated country in the world with over 1.4 billion people

What’s interesting about China

Mandarin is not the only language in China. There are others such as Yue 粤语 Cantonese, Wu 吴语,
Minnan 闽南, Xiang, Gan and Hakka 客家. And there is a lot more uncommon language spread around
this country.

Ice cream was discovered in China some 4000 years ago. The Chinese people back then combined milk,
rice mixture and snow to create the yummy dessert.

football (soccer) was not invented in Europe. The first recorded information about the sport was 2,200
years ago in China. Ancient Chinese people created the world’s first soccer ball made of leather. The
ball was filled with feathers and hair and the sport was original called ‘Tsu’ Chu,’ 蹴鞠 cu4 ju1 which
means ‘kicking ball.’

China builds a new skyscraper every five days. There is no country in the world that is growing as fast as
China. In a year, China builds at least 73 new skyscrapers. Put together, all of China’s railways lines
could loop around earth twice!
The Forbidden City, a palace complex in Beijing, contains about 9,000 rooms!
Half of all pigs on earth live in China.
Ancient China was a land of invention. For centuries, China was much more advanced than
most other countries in science and technology, astronomy and maths. The Chinese invented
paper, the magnetic compass, printing, tea porcelain, silk and gunpowder, among other things.

Government

China is ruled by a very powerful central government. A huge workforce and lots of natural
resources have driven economic change. This has forced the communist* government to
allow more economic and personal freedoms, but it has come at a huge cost to the
environment, too. Many experts predict that the 21st century will be the ‘Chinese century.’
Whether or not that proves to be true, there is no doubt that what happens in China will affect
many other nations.
* Communism is a system which aims to create a society where everything is shared
equally among the people.
* A republic is a form of government where the people elect their leaders to run the
country

China is the home of one of the world’s oldest civilisations, but it has only recently
become a ‘modern’ nation. In the last 20 years, China has changed faster than any
other country in the world.

Chinese history is divided into dynasties, each of which marks the period when a line of
emperors ruled. The first empire was the Qin dynasty and began in 221 B.C. The last
emperor was overthrown in 1912, and China became a republic. The communist
government began its rule in 1949 following a civil war with the Chinese Nationalists.

Places

The places in china that I like the most is Taiwan. As we all knows, Taiwan as a part of
china, has a lot of unique cultural brought from mainland china. Bc of cultural revolution,

The Four Olds or the Four Old Things, the student-led Red Guards in the People's

Republic of China in reference to the pre-communist elements of Chinese
culture they attempted to destroy. The Four Olds were: Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old
Habits, and Old Customs (Chinese: Jiù Sīxiǎng 旧思想, Jiù Wénhuà 旧文化, Jiù Fēngsú
旧风俗, and Jiù Xíguàn 旧习惯).  The campaign to destroy the Four Olds began
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in Beijing on August 19, 1966 (the "Red August", during which a massacre also took
place in Beijing ), shortly after the launch of the Cultural Revolution.
[2]

So mainland china is very advance in tech, but lack of some traditional cultural. But
Taiwan has almost complete traditional cultural.

The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Confucian Chinese and indigenous

Taiwanese cultures.  Despite the overwhelming
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traditional Chinese influence, Japanese culture has influenced a lot of Taiwanese

culture as well.  The common socio-political experience in Taiwan gradually
[2]

developed into a sense of Taiwanese cultural identity and a feeling of Taiwanese

cultural awareness, which has been widely debated domestically.

The prevalent form of religious belief in Taiwan is a blend of Buddhism, Taoism,

and Chinese folk religion. Multireligous

bubble tea is a popular tea drink available in many parts of the world. A notable
Japanese influence exists due to the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.
Taiwanese cuisine itself is often associated with influences from mid to southern
provinces of China, most notably from the province of Fujian, but influences from
all of China can easily be found due to the large number of Chinese who
immigrated to Taiwan at end of the Chinese Civil War and when Taiwan was under
Chinese rule (ROC). In the process, Taiwan developed a distinct style of cuisine

Taiwan's freedom of press is guaranteed by the Constitution and its worldwide press

freedom index ranks at 32 among 169 nations, as of 2007. Taiwan had been under martial
law, with strict restrictions on the press and broadcasting, before political liberalization
loosened restrictions in the 1980s.

Boasting over 9,200 convenience stores in an area of 35,980 km  and a population of 22.9

2

million, Taiwan has the Asia Pacific's and perhaps the world's highest density of
convenience stores per person: one store per 2,500 people or .0004 stores per person.  As [30]

of 1 January 2009, Taiwan also has 4,800 7-Eleven stores, and thus the world's highest
density of 7-Elevens per person: one store per 4,786 people or .000210 stores per person. [26]

 In Taipei, it is not unusual to see two 7-Elevens across the street from or several of them
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within a few hundred meters of each other.

Because they are found nearly everywhere, convenience stores in Taiwan provide services
on behalf of financial institutions or government agencies such as collection of the city
parking fee, utility bills, traffic violation fines, and credit card payments. Eighty-one percent
of urban household shoppers in Taiwan visit a convenience store each week.  The idea of
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being able to purchase food items, drink, fast food, magazines, videos, computer games,
and so on 24 hours a day and at any corner of a street makes life easier for Taiwan's
extremely busy and rushed population. Family mart, 7-11

Taiwanization of the culture of Taiwan has been a trend since democratisation in the 1980s
and 1990s. In 2000, after half a century of Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party rule, the first
ever democratic change of ruling parties in Taiwan occurred with the election of Chen Shui-
bian and his Taiwan-centric Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), marking an important step
towards Taiwanization. While generally the KMT, the other major political party, is also
more open to promoting Taiwan's cultural autonomy than in the past, the DPP made
Taiwanization a key plank in its political platform. The Chen administration's policies
included measures designed to focus on Taiwan while de-emphasizing cultural and
historical ties to China. These policies included changes such as revising textbooks and
changing school curricula to focus more on Taiwan's own history to the exclusion of China,
and changing the names of institutions that contain "China" to "Taiwan". This sometimes
led to incongruities such as Sun Yat-sen being treated as both a "foreign" (Chinese)
historical figure and as the "Father of the Country" (Republic of China). These policies are
called Taiwanization but have been attacked by detractors as "desinicization", which
explains why these policies are generally applauded by most ethnic Taiwanese and
opposed by the KMT.

One phenomenon that has resulted from the Taiwanization movement is the advent
of Taike subculture, in which people consciously adopt the wardrobe, language and cuisine
to emphasize the uniqueness of popular, groundroots Taiwanese culture, which in previous
times had often been seen as provincial and brutally suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek.

The Kuomintang took power in 2008 with the election of Ma Ying-jeou to the presidency.
The new KMT administration has controversially sought to reverse some of the desinicizing
policies of the Chen administration, to various degrees of public support. The restoration of
the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to its former state has been generally supported. By
contrast, a directive by the administration to foreign missions to henceforth refer to visits
by foreign dignitaries as "visiting (cultural) China" has been rescinded after criticism from
DPP legislators.

Since 1949, Taiwan had managed to develop itself into the center of Chinese pop culture
(also known as "C-pop" or 中文流行文化). Today, the commercial Chinese music industry in
the world (especially Mandopop and Taiwanese pop) is still largely dominated by
Taiwanese pop artists. Successful Chinese pop artists from other countries (e.g. Stefanie
Sun, JJ Lin from Singapore) are also trained, groomed and marketed in Taiwan. Chinese pop
artists from other countries who wish to become successful usually have to go to Taiwan to
develop their music career. Mandopop and Taiwanese (Hokkien) genre music continue to
flourish in Taiwan today.
Ever since the 1990s, Taiwanese variety shows (綜藝節目) had grown from its home base in
Taiwan to other parts of the world. Today, it is widely watched and enjoyed by
the Overseas Chinese communities in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia,
and the United States.