FACTS ABOUT CHINA

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT CHINA

1.                 China is officially known as the “People’s Republic of China.”

2.                 Have you ever wondered where toilet paper came from? Well, you guessed right, it came from China.

3.                 Apart from toilet papers, the Chinese invented paper, gunpowder, which is a well-known fact, the compass, and the art of printing.

4.                 The Chinese language is the longest language still in use in writing in the world.

5.                 For a majority of the Chinese, their hobby is stamp collecting!

6.                 By the way, if you thought that stamp collecting is a lame hobby, you will be shocked to learn that in China, this lame hobby is viewed as a symbol of status. How interesting it is!

7.                 When you wear black as a sign of mourning, in China, they mourn in white.

8.                 The Chinese invented the kite over 3,000 years ago, and they used it to frighten their enemies during the war!

9.                 Chinese started drilling for natural gas before the 4th Century, 2,300 years before the Westerners.

10.            The Chinese love red. This color to them symbolizes happiness, and that is why it is commonly used in their festivals and most functions expressing Chinese culture.

11.            By A.D. 1092, the Chinese already had a mechanical clock, which could tell   time accurately.

12.            The Chinese were the first to discover how blood circulates in the body in the 2nd century B.C.

13.      The world's largest runway is in China at the "Qamba Bamba" Airport. It is 5.5 kilometers in length.

14.            The Renminbi (Yuan) (¥) (CNY) is the official currency of China.

15.            China Imports: electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral fuels; nuclear reactor, boiler, and machinery components; optical and medical equipment, metal ores, motor vehicles; soybeans.

16.            China Exports: electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, furniture, textiles, integrated circuits.

17.            The internet country code for China is .cn.

18.            The total population of China is 1,373,541,278.

19.            China shares a border with North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.

20.            The national symbol of China is a dragon.

21.            45 billion chopsticks are used in China each year!

22.            The oldest tree in the world is China's gingko, which first appeared during the Jurassic Age some 160 million years ago.

23.            Chinese celebrate October 1 as National Day in honor of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.

24.            The Chinese New Year celebration lasts for 15 days.

25.            In China, every year is represented by one of 12 animals.

26.            Chinese white dolphins, which live off southern China, are often pink.

27.            Asiatic golden cats in the country’s south sometimes communicate by spitting.

28.            Put together, all of China’s railways lines could loop around earth twice!

29.            Chinese monal birds sometimes build nests in caves.

30.            In 2010 a 2,400-year-old pot of soup was unearthed in Xi’an, China.

31.            The Forbidden City, a palace complex in Beijing, contains about 9,000 rooms!

32.            In Ancient China, soldiers sometimes wore armour made from paper.

33.            The Yangtze River in China is the fourth longest river in the world.