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    China is the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. It has a long history as one of the earliest civilizations and was once ruled by a series of dynastic monarchies until the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 led by the Communist Party. While China has experienced rapid economic growth with annual GDP growth over 6% since economic reforms began in 1978, it remains a one-party socialist state that has been criticized for human rights issues.

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    China is the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. It has a long history as one of the earliest civilizations and was once ruled by a series of dynastic monarchies until the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 led by the Communist Party. While China has experienced rapid economic growth with annual GDP growth over 6% since economic reforms began in 1978, it remains a one-party socialist state that has been criticized for human rights issues.

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    China (Chinese: 中国; pinyin: Zhōngguó; literally: 'Central State'), officially the People's Republic of

    China (PRC; Chinese: 中华人民共和国; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó), is a country in East


    Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.428 billion in 2017.
    Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the world's third or
    fourth largest country by area.[j] Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises
    jurisdiction over 22 provinces,[k] 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 first 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-mythical 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 BCE until 220 CE, 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 the Horn of Africa. Dynastic rule ended in 1912
    with the Xinhai Revolution, when the Republic of China (ROC) replaced the Qing dynasty. China, as
    a whole, was ravaged by feudal warlordism and Japan during World War II. The
    subsequent Chinese Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949 when the Communist Party of
    China led by Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China on mainland China while
    the Kuomintang-led nationalist government retreated to the island of Taiwan where it governed until
    1996 when Taiwan transitioned to democracy. The political status of Taiwan remains disputed to this
    day.
    China is a unitary one-party socialist republic and is one of the few existing socialist states. Political
    dissidents and human rights groups have denounced and criticized the Chinese
    government for human rights abuses, suppression of religious and ethnic
    minorities, censorship and mass surveillance, and cracking down on protests such as in 1989. The
    Chinese government says that the right to subsistence and economic development is a prerequisite
    to other types of human rights and that the notion of human rights should take into account a
    country's present economic level.
    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. According to
    official data, China's GDP in 2018 was 90 trillion Yuan ($13.5 trillion). Since 2010, China has been
    the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP, and since 2014, the largest economy in the
    world by PPP. China is also the world's largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China
    is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world's largest standing army, the People's
    Liberation Army, and the second-largest defense budget. The PRC is a permanent member of
    the United Nations Security Council as it replaced the ROC in 1971, as well as an active global
    partner of ASEAN Plus mechanism. China has been characterized as a emerging superpower,
    mainly because of its massive population, large and rapidly-growing economy, and powerful military.

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