Part of the country series of articles.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: EXERCISE HEIGHTENED CAUTIONPARSTATE advises that China periodically experiences mass mobilisations and political upheaval, which can occur with little or no warning. The ability of the Commonwealth to provide consular assistance in rural areas is limited.
| People's Republic of China | |
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| People’s Republic | |
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| Capital | Beijing |
| Languages | Mandarin, Cantonese, and many regional languages |
| Population | 1,242,000,000 |
The People’s Republic of China is a Maoist, single-party state in East Asia and has the largest population of any country in the world. It is governed from Beijing, which has been the seat of power in China for centuries. Since the republic was founded in 1949, the country has undergone several revolutions that were often architected as a means to correct the errors of the last, and which have developed into a matter of national policy as a permanent revolutionary state. The first, known as the Cultural Revolution, took place in the 1960s under Mao Zedong and brought about five years of internal upheaval and near-anarchy. The most recent, the Floral Revolution, was more limited in scope and saw the purge of nearly three fifths of the ruling Communist Party’s leadership.
A vast and tremendously productive country, the Chinese economy exists in a state of planned autarky. It exports large amount of rare earths, which are used in robots and nuclear power generation. It is also the world’s largest producer of rice thanks to its legendary rivers, primarily the Pearl and the Yangtze, and whose catastrophic floods have been mitigated through a century of intense damming.