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Great wall of China:
The best-known and best-preserved section of the Great Wall was built in the 14th through 17th centuries during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). It is 8851 kilometers long that corsses plains , grasslands , mountains from the east to west China . Though the Great Wall never effectively prevented invaders from entering China, it came to function more as psychological barrier between Chinese civilization and the world , and remains a powerful symbol of the country’s enduring strength.

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Feng Shui:
Feng Shui is a combination of art and science that was approximately developed 3000 years ago in China. According to Chinese culture Feng Shui are of two types , a good one that brings good fortune and a bad one that brings misfortunes . Feng Shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature , particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with Chi or energy . The theories of Ying and Yang and five elements are some basic aspect of Feng Shui.

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Education
China's current rate of doctors per 1000 heads is 1.51/1000 compared to the United States that has 2.3/1000 heads when it comes to doctors heres the difference though, China has a population of 1,413,789,632[2018] while the United states only has a population of 326 241 860[2018] so when it boils down to actual numbers, the United States only has 750,356 doctors in total while China on the other hand, has nearly triple, amounting to 2,134,822 doctors.

Economy
China has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world growing to about 11.2 Trillion GDP (2016) and they are not stopping anytime soon, with the development of the One Belt Project(also known as the Silk Road of the 21st century) and enormous amounts of government spending (expected to be 203330.00 Yuan,High minus low in 2020 [per person]) its no wonder China is steamrolling through the economic world.

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Countries Compared by Health > Physicians > Per 1,000 people. International Statistics at NationMaster.com

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Physicians are defined as graduates of any facility or school of medicine who are working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, research).

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Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices.

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Government Spending in China is expected to be 203330.00 CNY HML by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the China Government Spending is projected to trend around 203330.00 CNY HML in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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World Population:

reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022 according to the latest United Nations estimates.

is projected to reach 9 billion in 2037, and 10 billion in 2058.

has doubled in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion).

is currently (2023) growing at a rate of around 0.88% per year, adding around 70 million people per year to the total.

growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at 2.09%.

growth rate is currently declining and is projected to continue to decline in the coming years (reaching below 0.50% by 2048, reach 0 in 2086, and decline by -0.11% in 2100) .

a tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history up to the year 1800 for world population to reach 1 billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), the fifth billion in 13 years (1987), the sixth billion in 11 years (1998), the seventh billion and eighth billion in 12 years each (2010 and 2022). During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion.

Sources for the world population counter: For more detailed information:

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Worldometer - real time world statistics

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Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Interesting statistics with world population clock, forest loss this year, carbon dioxide co2 emission, world hunger data, energy consumed, and a lot more

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Ancient China
The history of education in China can be traced back at as far as the 16th century BC. The curriculum were mainly based on The Four Books and The Five Classics.
With the humiliating defeat under the hands of British army in the Opium War (1840-1842), scholars and government officials suggested a major restructure of education system, developing new areas such as foreign language, science and technology. New educational models from European, American and Japanese were set up in China.

New Era
In 1985, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issued the principle that local governments should be responsible for basic education. China started a system of 9-year compulsory education.

In 2012, China spent more than 1 trillion RMB on research and development and more than 700 billion RMB on higher education. Between 2005 and 2012, the number of researchers in China increased by 38% and the number of published research articles from higher education institutions in China increased by 54%.

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History of Education in China - China Education Center

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History of education in China can be traced back at as far as the 16th century BC. Throughout this period of time, education was the privilege of the elites. Confucianism probably is the biggest influence in history of education in China.

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The Civilization in China
The modern Chinese state was forged from a nasty civil war, and its recent history since 1949 has been plagued by a series of highly disruptive discontinuities. It has had no continuous narrative from which to draw inspiration and to define the soul of a nation. But few Chinese know or agree on what China should stand for in the 21st century. It is clearly a global economic power, but unlike the United States, China seems to have little desire to stake out social and political values that others might adopt.

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Editor's note: Damien Ma is a Fellow at The Paulson Institute, focused on investment and policy programs and the Institute's research and think tank activities. He is the co-author of the book In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Damien Ma. Follow him on Twitter.
(CNN) -- If the 21st century belongs to China, as some have argued, then it is worth asking what the defining Chinese idea will be.

It is unsurprising that this very issue has ginned up ferocious debate within China, as the country's might grows but its voice remains meek on the global stage.

Economic success alone has yet to evince a self-assured China that it can offer a set of compelling values and ideas to the world. As a country that prides itself on the continuity of its great civilization and cultural force, China seems to grow increasingly dissatisfied with punching below its weight in the world of ideas.

Indeed, much of the 20th century was defined by the rise of the United States and the dominance of the American idea: It was essentially an articulation of what modernity means.

To be modern meant widespread economic prosperity, a healthy middle class, and technological superiority, combined with values that emphasized individual rights and freedoms to pursue whatever lives, liberties, and happiness that one sought. It was a manifestation of the ideals that were enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, a document that, at the young nation's inception, defined what kind of country the United States ought to strive for.

In many ways, the country was born out of a few central ideas because its existence could not be predicated on strong ethnic kinships, bloodlines, or the old monarchical order. It was not the "Old World" but a new nation that was moving toward collective ideals. The belief in the very idea of America was the strongest glue that could bind together a diverse, continental nation.

That cohesive idea has anchored the "American Dream" and provided ballast for themes that are readily found in Hollywood and other popular culture products that pervade the global market. Whether by design or accidental, the genius of the American idea is that it is simply an open source template, or a "default setting," that can be easily replicated and customized in different cultural and institutional environments.

Its power and universalizing appeal is apparent. Little wonder that the American idea gained immense market share and is still widely equated with the general aspiration of obtaining a high living standard and human dignity.

China, in contrast, is both of the old world and a young republic -- or as scholar Lucian Pye once rendered it, "a civilization pretending to be a nation-state." And its transition into a modern state has been anything but smooth.

The modern Chinese state was forged from a nasty civil war, and its recent history since 1949 has been plagued by a series of highly disruptive discontinuities. It has had no continuous narrative from which to draw inspiration and to define the soul of a nation.

In fact, the People's Republic under Mao Zedong primarily defined itself as what it is not -- that is, it wasn't feudal or traditional. For the next six decades, the country lurched from devastating revolution to hyper materialism, breaking with whatever ideological milieu that had existed at the time. When Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978, the only "ism" that mattered was pragmatism, as the country went to work on nation building and zeroed in on material prosperity.

Thirty-five years and several trillions worth of GDP later, an entire generation of Chinese is waking up to the fact that it still has little idea of what kind of nation to strive for.

All this relentless work has built a dynamic middle-income economy, yet cumulative wealth is no substitute for the richness of a nation, especially for a China that believes it has much to offer the world. After all, this is a country that once brought the world paper, gunpowder, and the compass. Virtually every Chinese school child knows that.

But few Chinese know or agree on what China should stand for in the 21st century. It is clearly a global economic power, but unlike the United States, China seems to have little desire to stake out social and political values that others might adopt.

The Chinese government, which tightly controls historical narratives, simply cannot look into its recent past to seek out those values because even communism is derived from a Western political philosophy appropriated for Chinese conditions. And politically, it could be potentially disastrous if the government owned up to all the dark chapters in its recent past.

It seems that China has little choice but to look to its distant past in search of a continuous narrative and an indigenous idea that can carry the nation forward in the 21st Century.

The new leadership of the Communist Party, particularly President Xi Jinping, has prioritized this effort because it understands that a major source of its political power is derived from ideological legitimacy. To keep a continental nation together, China, too, needs a ruling party to govern around a set of ideas so that its people can imagine what the country can and should become.

And so the "great rejuvenation" of the Chinese nation has become the new ideological offering -- an explicit effort to connect today's China to the glories of a former empire that sat at the center of the world. It revives the traditional ideas of wealth and power that have defined the country through much of its history.

The Chinese leadership is leaving little doubt that China will once again be a global force that garners respect.

Yet it is far from clear what a rejuvenated China means or how that force might be employed. Reestablishing "national greatness" may win over some of the Chinese public, but it hardly serves as an idea or value proposition that can extend beyond Chinese borders.

Each nation is entitled to deem itself unique, exceptional, and "great" -- the United States certainly does. But some nations also use their wealth and power to articulate a vision of how to shape the world and aspire to address common challenges. The tagline for a U.S. Navy advertisement, for example, is "a global force for good."

China, at least so far, has exhibited little interest in becoming a charge d'affaires with world-shaping responsibilities, even as outside pressures mount for it to assume them. Indeed, it may simply be comfortable with being just China -- an idea that the rest of the world may have to get used to.

Read more: Xi Jinping's 2014 challenge: Resolving an identity crisis?
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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Damien Ma.

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China's 21st century challenge: Define your narrative or fall behind

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Editor's note: Damien Ma is a Fellow at The Paulson Institute, focused on investment and policy programs and the Institute's research and think tank activities. He is the co-author of the book In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade.

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Progressing or Declining?
China last year grew at its slowest pace since 1990, dragged down by a severe slowdown in manufacturing and construction, once the main growth drivers. Consumption has not been growing as quickly as hoped to compensate for the decline in exports. While GDP per person has increased notably in recent decades, it is still only about a quarter of what is seen in the US.

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China's economy: GDP growth, interest rates and inflation statistics

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20 charts that explain the Chinese economy

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The FT's one-stop overview of key economic data, including GDP, inflation, unemployment, the major business surveys, the public finances and house prices

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This fact sheet is created to inform the readers on specific factors about China, such as economy and education. We also have included the comparison of ancient and modern China on those certain factors to explore the origin and the changes that has happened to China. This fact sheet is filled with subtopics about China and its civilization to make it easier for the reader to find specific information that they need.

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China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations that began around 1500 BC. In the past, China has gone through a wide range of circumstances including foreign invasions, dynasty wars and violent revolutions. The end of the ancient period was marked by fierce battles between people of different clans leading to the downfall of the Zhou dynasty and the beginning of a unified China under the Qin Dynasty. The Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward achieved finality around 1977.

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How China became the world's second largest economy

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Ancient China
Ancient Chinese people traded salt, iron, fish, cattle, and silk. At the eastern end of the route, the Chinese traded with people from India, providing them with silk and getting Lapis Lazuli, coral, jade, glass, and pearls in exchange. The ancient Chinese first used cowrie shells for money in China as early as 1800 BC. Then people used metal imitations of cowrie shells, and then metal strings of beads called cash. Cowry shells were used as the medium of exchange/money in the late 21st century BC. Bronze replicas of cowries became the first Chinese cast coins.

New Era
Over the 1997 to 2015 period, China's real per capita GDP expanded at a 9.6 percent average annual rate - more than 50 percent faster than the 6.1 percent trajectory recorded from 1952-76. As a result, by 2015, overall output per person was fully 3.4 times higher under the "Deng takeoff scenario" than would have been the case had the Chinese economy stayed on the previous more subdued growth path.

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Ancient China had a very strong civilization, even though there were a few changes relating to their economy and education. Since3 the very beginning, China has been in the top ranks in terms of economy and is currently on the way to being the No.1 economy in the world with the One Belt Projects being one of the most ambitious projects of modern history, investors flocking to the Chinese economy and China being one of the longest living civilizations at the moment its not hard to see that they are heading towards the number one spot in terms of economy and education, as well as various other industries. Overall, China's heading towards a successful future.