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PopulationChina is a very heavily populated country with an approximant amount of 1.330,044,600

people living there. 60 percent of Chinese people speak Mandarin, 25 percent speak

Cantinas and 15 percent of the people have migrated to China. Chinas growth rate is

approximately 0.63 percent every year. Chinas population growth is 1,566,056 but is still

increasing each day. Chinas birth rate this year is 3,896,397, which leads to Chinas big

population.

Animals

The Giant Panda is found in China. 240 Giant Pandas were captured from the wilderness.This time, only about 100 Giant Pandas still survive in local zoo centres. Shanghai Zoological

Park started raising Giant Pandas in 1957. Up to 1994, 15 giant pandas were born, but not

one baby survived. Up to 1995, three giant pandas were born. They belong to the Chongqing

Zoo and one belongs to the Shanghai Zoo. The giant panda has very little prey which they

are jackals, leopards and the yellow-throated marten. The yellow-throated marten

sometimes eat little giant panda cubs. Their diet is 99 percent bamboo and eat almost 26-84

pounds of it a day.

The increase in Chinas population throughout 1949-

The Giant PandaThe yellow represents where the

Giant Pandas live

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Capital cityBeijing is the capital city of the Republic of China. After the city of Shanghai, Beijing is the

second largest city in China. In 2012 Beijings population was 20,693,000 and the area sizewas 16,801 sq. Kilometres. To this day, Beijing has become one of the world most popular

tourist destinations, with approximately 140 million Chinese tourists and 4.4 million

international visitors in a year.

FoodThe most popular dishes in China are Dumplings, Sweet and Sour Pork, Spring Rolls, Ma Po

Tofu, Peaking Duck, Wontons, Chow Mein and Gong Bao Chicken. Sweet and Sour Pork is a

very bright orange colour to the pork, and is covered in a sweet and sour sauce. The main

ingredients in the Gong Bao Chicken is diced chicken, dried chilli and fried peanuts. Ma Po

Tofu has a hot, spicy taste which comes from pepper powder. The Tofu is mixed with brown,

red ground beef chopped grown onion. Wontons are shaped as a right triangle, similar

looking to an Italian Tortalini. They are usually cooked in soup or deep fried. The filling is

minced meet or diced up shrimp.

Beijing at nightBeijing National Stadium Birds

Dumplings

Peaking Duck

Spring RollsMa Po Tufo


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Tourist AttractionsSome of the famous tourist attractions in China are The Summer place, the Great Wall of

China, and the Temple of heaven. The Summer Place was built in 1750. The Summer place

has an overlook on one of Chinas lakes. The Temple of heaven was built in 1420. The Great

Wall of China was built by man-made structure construction started in the 7th century BC.

The Great Wall of China was built to keep out the warring from the north out. The GreatWall of China is approximately 6,700 kilometres long.

SportSome of Chinas famous sports are table tennis, soccer, badminton, diving, basketball, chess,

and gymnastics. Table tennis is also referred as ping pong. China has won 24 gold medals

by competing in the Olympics in total China has won 42 medals. Basketball was popular only

in the 1900s the Chinas basketball team played in the Olympics to but the only won 15 gold,

1 silver and 2 bronze medals. In total they won 18 medals. The sport Badminton, china

competed in the world championships in 1977. In the Olympics, China won 38 medals. 16

were gold, 8 were silver and 14 were bronze. Chinas diving team competed in the 2012

Olympic Games. China won 59 medals. 33 were gold, 17 were silver and 9 were bronze.

China also participates in soccer, gymnastics and chess.

Music instrumentsSome of Chinas traditional instruments are the Jinghu, Pipa, Gong, Ruan and

The Great Wall of China

BadmintonChina winning a gold medal

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Xiao. The Jinghu instrument is a very high pitched sound and it became very popular in

1790. China was thinking to put it in the Beijing opera. Pipa is one of the oldest and one of

chinas well known instrument. It has been in the Chinese orchestra for 2,000 years and is a

part of Chinas history. The Gong is a very old and traditional instrument. The sound is

made by hitting the metal plate with a large stick. Ruan is a type of guitar it is called the

moon guitar and it comes in all different sizes and pitch. The Xiao is a very popular wind

instrument.

Flag

The Chinese flag includes a

solid red background, a

yellow golden star in the

top left hand corner which

is larger than the four smaller

stars which semi-

circle around the

larger star. Each yellow star has five

points. The red colour of the flag

symbolizes revolution. The

larger star symbolizes the

Communist Party (which rules China),

and the smaller stars represent the

republic people of China.

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