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*Population of 1,410,539,758
*Officially atheist
-Folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%

Occupations
Agriculture (27.7%)
Industry (28.8%)
Services (43.5%)

Cultural/Traditional values
Chinese New Year
Chinese zodiac which is represented by animals
Hanfu which is one of the oldest Chinese traditional clothes.

Facts
-They believe family is a top priority
-There are 56 ethnic groups
-China has 18 cities with a population over 10 million

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1839: The British and opium war.
The British and opium war in 1839 was the result of China trying to stop the illegal opium trade. Britain wanted to expand their power and sell more goods, including opium. The first war ended in 1842 and the second war started in 1856 - 1860

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1911: The Revolution
The 1911 revolution was also known as Xinhai Revolution and it ended china's last imperial dynasty. It also led to the establishment of the Republic of China. A consequence of losing was loss of territory.

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Main Imports
-Crude Petroleum ($150B)
- Integrated Circuits ($144B)
- Iron Ore ($99B)
-Cars (42B)
- Soybeans (37.4B)

Main Exports
-Broadcasting Equipment ($223B)
-Computers ($156B)
-Integrated Circuits ($120B)
-Office Machine Parts ($86.8B)
-Cloth Articles ($60.7B)

Chinese money is called Renminbi or Yuan and one Yuan is $0.15 US dollars.
China's GDP was $17.73 trillion as of 2021 and the United States was $23.32 trillion as of 2021.

Facts
- China has helped more people out of poverty than any other country
- China is the world’s largest exporter and the second largest importer of merchandise goods
- China received an average GDP growth close to 10% a year until 2014

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*Communist
*Xi Jinping is the president
Facts
- Senior politicians always dye their hair black.
- They do not allow anyone to have any internet.
- Around 50 of china's most powerful men have a red phone on their desk called the "red machine".

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1949: Mao proclaimed the creation of the People's Republic of china
on October 1st, 1949 at 3:00pm Mao Zedong declared the Peoples Republic of China. This ended the civil war between the Chinese communist party and the Nationalist party. China and communism led the United states to stop ties with the PRC.

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PBS takes your family on a Summer of Adventure with eight new programs that explore topics as diverse as Yellowstone's wildlife emerging from deep winter to the awakenings of spring to a walking tour of Havana. Throughout the summer, meet rare animals, travel to the wild coasts of Ireland and see Alaska's amazing natural spectacle close-up in PBS' second live natural history event - Wild Alaska, Live!
The adventure begins with The Story of China. Historian and host Michael Wood suggests that to truly understand China today, we must look back at its 4,000-year history. Wood focuses on some of the earliest rulers of China and takes us through to the last Chinese empire, the birth of the People's Republic, to today's China a global economic powerhouse.

Nine is an auspicious number for the Chinese, representing long life and power. Here, Wood chooses nine key dates from Chinese history.

1046 BC: The Mandate of Heaven. Among the earliest rulers of China, the Zhou established the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which a just ruler must maintain harmony between heaven and Earth.

221 BC: The First Emperor. A Qin emperor, whose tomb is guarded today by the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, created China's first centralized, unified state.

635 AD: The Glory of the Tang. The Tang dynasty (618-907) introduced an age of expansiveness, welcoming Christianity to Xi'an. The same year, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim arrived in India, initiating one of the great cultural exchanges in history.

1088: The Age of Invention. During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the Chinese invented printing, paper money, soccer, gunpowder and the magnetic compass; the "Leonardo da Vinci of China" invented the astronomical clock.

1405: The Great Ming Voyages. The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) is known for cobalt-blue porcelain, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and, under emperor Yongle, voyages to India, Africa and the Persian Gulf.

1705: The Greatest Emperor. The declining Ming fell to the Manchus, who became China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), and doubled the size of China.

1841: The British & the Opium War. The British dominated in the First Opium War and China entered its "century of humiliation."

1911: The End of the Empire. New world philosophers, socialists, feminists and constitutional monarchists all argued over China's future. Terminally rocked by the Boxer Rebellion, the Qing empire fell in 1911 and China became a republic.

1949: The Communist Revolution. In 1949, the People's Republic began with optimism and held power for decades. After Mao's death, steps toward political reform were put on hold after the Tiananmen Square crisis in 1989. Today, China flexes its muscles as a global economic powerhouse.

Tune in to The Story of China Tuesdays through July 11. Check your local listings for show times.
Michael Wood is well known to television viewers as the writer and presenter of many critically acclaimed series. Born and educated in Manchester, Michael did postgraduate research at Oxford in Anglo-Saxon history. He had ambitions for a career as a medieval historian but says he was `drawn away by television' and by the possibilities of popularizing history, which has always been his great passion.

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PBS takes your family on a Summer of Adventure with eight new programs that explore topics as diverse as Yellowstone's wildlife emerging from deep winter to the awakenings of spring to a walking tour of Havana.