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7 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Porcelain \Por"ce*lain\ (277), n. [F. porcelaine, It.
porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell
(Cypr[ae]a porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig,
probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a
pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on
account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was
believed to be made from it. See {Pork}.]
A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware,
made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and
America; -- called also {China}, or {China ware}.
[1913 Webster]
Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
{Ivory porcelain}, porcelain with a surface like ivory,
produced by depolishing. See {Depolishing}.
{Porcelain clay}. See under {Clay}.
{Porcelain crab} (Zool.), any crab of the genus {Porcellana}
and allied genera (family {Porcellanid[ae]}). They have a
smooth, polished carapace.
{Porcelain jasper}. (Min.) See {Porcelanite}.
{Porcelain printing}, the transferring of an impression of an
engraving to porcelain.
{Porcelain shell} (Zool.), a cowry.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
China \Chi"na\, n.
1. A country in Eastern Asia.
[1913 Webster]
2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for
porcelain. See {Porcelain}.
[1913 Webster]
{China aster} (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant.
See {Aster}.
{China bean}. See under {Bean}, 1.
{China clay} See {Kaolin}.
{China grass}, Same as {Ramie}.
{China ink}. See {India ink}.
{China pink} (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of
{Dianthus} ({Dianthus Chiensis}) having variously colored
single or double flowers; Indian pink.
{China root} (Med.), the rootstock of a species of {Smilax}
({Smilax China}, from the East Indies; -- formerly much
esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used
for. Also the galanga root (from {Alpinia Gallanga} and
{Alpinia officinarum}).
{China rose}. (Bot.)
(a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of
rose derived from the {Rosa Indica}, and perhaps other
species.
(b) A flowering hothouse plant ({Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis})
of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China
and the east Indies.
{China shop}, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or
of crockery.
{Pride of China}, {China tree}. (Bot.) See {Azedarach}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
China
n 1: a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern
Asia; the most populous country in the world [syn: {People's
Republic of China}, {mainland China}, {Communist China},
{Red China}, {PRC}]
2: high quality porcelain originally made only in China
3: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by
Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by
the communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: {Taiwan}, {Nationalist
China}, {Republic of China}]
4: dishware made of china [syn: {chinaware}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "china":
adobe, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, bubble, cement, ceramic ware,
ceramics, clay, crock, crockery, eggshell, enamel, enamelware,
firebrick, glass, glass house, house of cards, ice, jug, matchwood,
old paper, parchment, piecrust, porcelain, pot, pottery,
refractory, tile, tiling, urn, vase
From CIA World Factbook 2002 [world02]:
China
Introduction China
------------------
Background: For centuries China stood as a
leading civilization, outpacing the
rest of the world in the arts and
sciences. But in the 19th and early
20th centuries, China was beset by
civil unrest, major famines,
military defeats, and foreign
occupation. After World War II, the
Communists under MAO Zedong
established a dictatorship that,
while ensuring China's sovereignty,
imposed strict controls over
everyday life and cost the lives of
tens of millions of people. After
1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping
gradually introduced market-oriented
reforms and decentralized economic
decision making, and output
quadrupled by 2000. Political
controls remain tight even while
economic controls continue to be
relaxed.
Geography China
---------------
Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East
China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea,
and South China Sea, between North
Korea and Vietnam
Geographic coordinates: 35 00 N, 105 00 E
Map references: Asia
Area: total: 9,596,960 sq km
land: 9,326,410 sq km
water: 270,550 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly smaller than the US
Land boundaries: total: 22,147.34 km
border countries: Afghanistan 76 km,
Bhutan 470 km, Burma 2,185 km, Hong
Kong 30 km, India 3,380 km,
Kazakhstan 1,533 km, North Korea
1,416 km, Kyrgyzstan 858 km, Laos
423 km, Macau 0.34 km, Mongolia
4,677 km, Nepal 1,236 km, Pakistan
523 km, Russia (northeast) 3,605 km,
Russia (northwest) 40 km, Tajikistan
414 km, Vietnam 1,281 km
Coastline: 14,500 km
Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NM
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
continental shelf: 200 NM or to the
edge of the continental margin
territorial sea: 12 NM
Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south
to subarctic in north
Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus,
deserts in west; plains, deltas, and
hills in east
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m
highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m
(1999 est.)
Natural resources: coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural
gas, mercury, tin, tungsten,
antimony, manganese, molybdenum,
vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead,
zinc, uranium, hydropower potential
(world's largest)
Land use: arable land: 13.31%
permanent crops: 1.2%
other: 85.49% (1998 est.)
Irrigated land: 525,800 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards: frequent typhoons (about five per
year along southern and eastern
coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis;
earthquakes; droughts; land
subsidence
Environment - current issues: air pollution (greenhouse gases,
sulfur dioxide particulates) from
reliance on coal, produces acid
rain; water shortages, particularly
in the north; water pollution from
untreated wastes; deforestation;
estimated loss of one-fifth of
agricultural land since 1949 to soil
erosion and economic development;
desertification; trade in endangered
species
Environment - international party to: Antarctic-Environmental
agreements: Protocol, Antarctic Treaty,
Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Desertification, Endangered Species,
Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea,
Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban,
Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution, Tropical Timber 83,
Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands,
Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Climate
Change-Kyoto Protocol
Geography - note: world's fourth-largest country
(after Russia, Canada, and US);
Mount Everest on the border with
Nepal, is the world's tallest peak
People China
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Population: 1,284,303,705 (July 2002 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 24.3% (male 163,821,081;
female 148,855,387)
15-64 years: 68.4% (male
452,354,428; female 426,055,713)
65 years and over: 7.3% (male
43,834,528; female 49,382,568) (2002
est.)
Population growth rate: 0.87% (2002 est.)
Birth rate: 15.85 births/1,000 population (2002
est.)
Death rate: 6.77 deaths/1,000 population (2002
est.)
Net migration rate: -0.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population
(2002 est.)
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.09 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.1 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.89 male(s)/
female
total population: 1.06 male(s)/
female (2002 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 27.25 deaths/1,000 live births (2002
est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.86 years
female: 73.86 years (2002 est.)
male: 70.02 years
Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman (2002 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.2% (2000-01 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/ 1.25 million (January 2001)
AIDS:
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 17,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality: noun: Chinese (singular and plural)
adjective: Chinese
Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur,
Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu,
Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other
nationalities 8.1%
Religions: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim
1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%
note: officially atheist (2002 est.)
Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin
(Putonghua, based on the Beijing
dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu
(Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou),
Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang,
Gan, Hakka dialects, minority
languages (see Ethnic groups entry)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read
and write
total population: 81.5%
male: 89.9%
female: 72.7% (1995 est.)
Government China
----------------
Country name: conventional long form: People's
Republic of China
conventional short form: China
local short form: Zhong Guo
abbreviation: PRC
local long form: Zhonghua Renmin
Gongheguo
Government type: Communist state
Capital: Beijing
Administrative divisions: 23 provinces (sheng, singular and
plural), 5 autonomous regions*
(zizhiqu, singular and plural), and
4 municipalities** (shi, singular
and plural); Anhui, Beijing**,
Chongqing**, Fujian, Gansu,
Guangdong, Guangxi*, Guizhou,
Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan,
Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi,
Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol*,
Ningxia*, Qinghai, Shaanxi,
Shandong, Shanghai**, Shanxi,
Sichuan, Tianjin**, Xinjiang*,
Xizang* (Tibet), Yunnan, Zhejiang;
note - China considers Taiwan its
23rd province; see separate entries
for the special administrative
regions of Hong Kong and Macau
Independence: 221 BC (unification under the Qin or
Ch'in Dynasty 221 BC; Qing or Ch'ing
Dynasty replaced by the Republic on
12 February 1912; People's Republic
established 1 October 1949)
National holiday: Anniversary of the Founding of the
People's Republic of China, 1
October (1949)
Constitution: most recent promulgation 4 December
1982
Legal system: a complex amalgam of custom and
statute, largely criminal law;
rudimentary civil code in effect
since 1 January 1987; new legal
codes in effect since 1 January
1980; continuing efforts are being
made to improve civil,
administrative, criminal, and
commercial law
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch: chief of state: President JIANG
Zemin (since 27 March 1993) and Vice
President HU Jintao (since 16 March
1998)
elections: president and vice
president elected by the National
People's Congress for five-year
terms; elections last held 16-18
March 1998 (next to be held NA March
2003); premier nominated by the
president, confirmed by the National
People's Congress
head of government: Premier ZHU
Rongji (since 18 March 1998); Vice
Premiers QIAN Qichen (since 29 March
1993), LI Lanqing (29 March 1993),
WU Bangguo (since 17 March 1995),
and WEN Jiabao (since 18 March 1998)
cabinet: State Council appointed by
the National People's Congress (NPC)
election results: JIANG Zemin
reelected president by the Ninth
National People's Congress with a
total of 2,882 votes (36 delegates
voted against him, 29 abstained, and
32 did not vote); HU Jintao elected
vice president by the Ninth National
People's Congress with a total of
2,841 votes (67 delegates voted
against him, 39 abstained, and 32
did not vote)
Legislative branch: unicameral National People's
Congress or Quanguo Renmin Daibiao
Dahui (2,979 seats; members elected
by municipal, regional, and
provincial people's congresses to
serve five-year terms)
elections: last held NA December
1997-NA February 1998 (next to be
held late 2002-NA March 2003)
election results: percent of vote -
NA%; seats - NA
Judicial branch: Supreme People's Court (judges
appointed by the National People's
Congress); Local Peoples Courts
(comprise higher, intermediate and
local courts); Special Peoples
Courts (primarily military,
maritime, and railway transport
courts)
Political parties and leaders: Chinese Communist Party or CCP
[JIANG Zemin, General Secretary of
the Central Committee]; eight
registered small parties controlled
by CCP
Political pressure groups and no substantial political opposition
leaders: groups exist, although the
government has identified the
Falungong sect and the China
Democracy Party as potential rivals
International organization AfDB, APEC, ARF (dialogue partner),
participation: AsDB, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS,
CCC, CDB, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IAEA,
IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD,
IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO,
Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO,
ITU, LAIA (observer), MINURSO,
MONUC, NAM (observer), OPCW, PCA,
UN, UN Security Council, UNAMSIL,
UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO,
UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMEE, UNMIBH,
UNMOVIC, UNTSO, UNU, UPU, WHO, WIPO,
WMO, WToO, WTrO
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador YANG
Jiechi
consulate(s) general: Chicago,
Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and
San Francisco
FAX: [1] (202) 328-2582
telephone: [1] (202) 328-2500
chancery: 2300 Connecticut Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20008
Diplomatic representation from the chief of mission: Ambassador Clark
US: T. RANDT, Jr.
embassy: Xiu Shui Bei Jie 3, 100600
Beijing
mailing address: PSC 461, Box 50,
FPO AP 96521-0002
telephone: [86] (10) 6532-3431
FAX: [86] (10) 6532-6422
consulate(s) general: Chengdu,
Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang
Flag description: red with a large yellow five-pointed
star and four smaller yellow five-
pointed stars (arranged in a
vertical arc toward the middle of
the flag) in the upper hoist-side
corner
Economy China
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Economy - overview: In late 1978 the Chinese leadership
began moving the economy from a
sluggish Soviet-style centrally
planned economy to a more market-
oriented system. Whereas the system
operates within a political
framework of strict Communist
control, the economic influence of
non-state organizations and
individual citizens has been
steadily increasing. The authorities
have switched to a system of
household and village responsibility
in agriculture in place of the old
collectivization, increased the
authority of local officials and
plant managers in industry,
permitted a wide variety of small-
scale enterprise in services and
light manufacturing, and opened the
economy to increased foreign trade
and investment. The result has been
a quadrupling of GDP since 1978. In
2001, with its 1.27 billion people
but a GDP of just $4,300 per capita,
China stood as the second largest
economy in the world after the US
(measured on a purchasing power
parity basis). Agriculture and
industry have posted major gains,
especially in coastal areas near
Hong Kong and opposite Taiwan, where
foreign investment has helped spur
output of both domestic and export
goods. On the darker side, the
leadership has often experienced in
its hybrid system the worst results
of socialism (bureaucracy and
lassitude) and of capitalism
(windfall gains and growing income
disparities). Beijing thus has
periodically backtracked,
retightening central controls at
intervals. The government has
struggled to (a) collect revenues
due from provinces, businesses, and
individuals; (b) reduce corruption
and other economic crimes; and (c)
keep afloat the large state-owned
enterprises many of which had been
shielded from competition by
subsidies and had been losing the
ability to pay full wages and
pensions. From 80 to 120 million
surplus rural workers are adrift
between the villages and the cities,
many subsisting through part-time
low-paying jobs. Popular resistance,
changes in central policy, and loss
of authority by rural cadres have
weakened China's population control
program, which is essential to
maintaining long-term growth in
living standards. Another long-term
threat to continued rapid economic
growth is the deterioration in the
environment, notably air pollution,
soil erosion, and the steady fall of
the water table especially in the
north. China continues to lose
arable land because of erosion and
economic development. Beijing will
intensify efforts to stimulate
growth through spending on
infrastructure - such as water
control and power grids - and
poverty relief and through rural tax
reform aimed at eliminating
arbitrary local levies on farmers.
Access to the World Trade
Organization strengthens China's
ability to maintain sturdy growth
rates, and at the same time puts
additional pressure on the hybrid
system of strong political controls
and growing market influences.
Although Beijing has claimed 7%-8%
annual growth in recent years, many
observers believe the rate, while
strong, is more like 5%.
GDP: purchasing power parity - $5.56
trillion (2001 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 7.3% (official estimate) (2001 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $4,300
(2001 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 17.7%
industry: 49.3%
services: 33% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line: 10% (2001 est.)
Household income or consumption by lowest 10%: 2.4%
percentage share: highest 10%: 30.4% (1998)
Distribution of family income - Gini 40 (2001)
index:
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.8% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 706 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 50%, industry 23%,
services 27% (2001 est.)
Unemployment rate: urban unemployment roughly 10%;
substantial unemployment and
underemployment in rural areas (2001
est.)
Budget: revenues: $161.8 billion
expenditures: $191.8 billion,
including capital expenditures of
$NA (2000)
Industries: iron and steel, coal, machine
building, armaments, textiles and
apparel, petroleum, cement, chemical
fertilizers, footwear, toys, food
processing, automobiles, consumer
electronics, telecommunications
Industrial production growth rate: 9.9% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production: 1.308 trillion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 81.83%
hydro: 16.83%
other: 0.12% (2000)
nuclear: 1.22%
Electricity - consumption: 1.206 trillion kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 10.25 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports: 400 million kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products: rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum,
peanuts, tea, millet, barley,
cotton, oilseed; pork; fish
Exports: $262.1 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment; textiles
and clothing, footwear, toys and
sporting goods; mineral fuels
Exports - partners: US 21%, Hong Kong 18%, Japan 17%,
South Korea, Germany, Netherlands,
UK, Singapore, Taiwan (2000)
Imports: $236.2 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, mineral
fuels, plastics, iron and steel,
chemicals
Imports - partners: Japan 18%, Taiwan 11%, South Korea
10%, US 10% Germany, Hong Kong,
Russia, Malaysia (2000)
Debt - external: $167 billion (2001 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $NA
Currency: yuan (CNY)
Currency code: CNY
Exchange rates: yuan per US dollar - 8.2767 (January
2002), 8.2771 (2001), 8.2785 (2000),
8.2783 (1999), 8.2790 (1998), 8.2898
(1997)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications China
--------------------
Telephones - main lines in use: 135 million (2000)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 65 million (January 2001)
Telephone system: general assessment: domestic and
international services are
increasingly available for private
use; unevenly distributed domestic
system serves principal cities,
industrial centers, and many towns
domestic: interprovincial fiber-
optic trunk lines and cellular
telephone systems have been
installed; a domestic satellite
system with 55 earth stations is in
place
international: satellite earth
stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific
Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1
Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region)
and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian
Ocean regions); several
international fiber-optic links to
Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong,
Russia, and Germany (2000)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)
Radios: 417 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 3,240 (of which 209 are operated by
China Central Television, 31 are
provincial TV stations and nearly
3,000 are local city stations)
(1997)
Televisions: 400 million (1997)
Internet country code: .cn
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2000)
Internet users: 26.5 million (2001)
Transportation China
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Railways: total: 67,524 km (including 5,400 km
of provincial "local" rails)
standard gauge: 63,924 km 1.435-
m gauge (13,362 km electrified;
20,250 km double-track)
narrow gauge: 3,600 km 0.750-m and
1.000-m gauge local industrial lines
(1999 est.)
Highways: total: 1.4 million km
paved: 271,300 km (with at least
16,000 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,128,700 km (1999)
Waterways: 110,000 km (1999)
Pipelines: crude oil 9,070 km; petroleum
products 560 km; natural gas 9,383
km (1998)
Ports and harbors: Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou,
Huangpu, Lianyungang, Nanjing,
Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao,
Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shantou,
Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Xiamen,
Xingang, Yantai, Zhanjiang (2001)
Merchant marine: total: 1,764 ships (1,000 GRT or
over) totaling 16,915,047 GRT/
25,366,296 DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 2, bulk
328, cargo 822, chemical tanker 25,
combination bulk 10, combination
ore/oil 1, container 134, liquefied
gas 26, multi-functional large-load
carrier 6, passenger 7, passenger/
cargo 45, petroleum tanker 263,
refrigerated cargo 26, roll on/roll
off 23, short-sea passenger 42,
specialized tanker 3, vehicle
carrier 1
note: includes some foreign-owned
ships registered here as a flag of
convenience: Croatia 1, Germany 1,
Hong Kong 16, Japan 2, Panama 2,
South Korea 1, Spain 1, Taiwan 9,
Tanzania 1, Turkey 1 (2002 est.)
Airports: 489 (2001)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 324
over 3,047 m: 27
2,438 to 3,047 m: 88
1,524 to 2,437 m: 147
914 to 1,523 m: 30
under 914 m: 32 (2001)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 165
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 29
914 to 1,523 m: 56
under 914 m: 78 (2001)
Military China
--------------
Military branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA):
comprises ground forces, Navy
(including naval infantry and naval
aviation), Air Force, and II
Artillery Corps (strategic missile
force), People's Armed Police Force
(internal security troops, nominally
a state security body but included
by the Chinese as part of the "armed
forces" and considered to be an
adjunct to the PLA), militia
Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 370,087,489 (2002
est.)
Military manpower - fit for military males age 15-49: 203,003,036 (2002
service: est.)
Military manpower - reaching males: 10,089,458 (2002 est.)
military age annually:
Military expenditures - dollar $20.048 billion (2002); note - this
figure: is the officially announced figure,
but actual defense spending more
likely ranges from $45 billion to
$65 billion for 2002
Military expenditures - percent of 1.6% (2002); note - this is the
GDP: officially announced figure, but
actual defense spending is more
likely between 3.5% to 5.0% of GDP
for 2002
Transnational Issues China
--------------------------
Disputes - international: in 2000, China joined ASEAN
discussions towards creating a South
China Sea "code of conduct" - a non-
legally binding, confidence-building
measure; much of the rugged,
militarized boundary with India is
in dispute, but talks to resolve the
least contested middle sector
resumed in 2001; ongoing talks with
Tajikistan have failed to resolve
the longstanding dispute over the
indefinite boundary; Kazakhstan is
working rapidly with China to
delimit its large open borders to
control population migration,
illegal activities, and trade; 2001
Treaty of Good Neighborliness,
Friendship, and Cooperation commits
Russia and China to seek peaceable
unanimity over disputed alluvial
islands at the confluence of the
Amur and Ussuri rivers and a small
island on the Argun; involved in a
complex dispute over the Spratly
Islands with Malaysia, Philippines,
Taiwan, Vietnam, and possibly
Brunei; maritime boundary agreement
with Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin
awaits ratification; Paracel Islands
occupied by China, but claimed by
Vietnam and Taiwan; claims Japanese-
administered Senkaku-shoto (Senkaku
Islands/Diaoyu Tai), as does Taiwan;
demarcation of the land boundary
with Vietnam has commenced, but
details of the alignment have not
been made public; 33-km section of
boundary with North Korea in the
Paektu-san (mountain) area is
indefinite
Illicit drugs: major transshipment point for heroin
produced in the Golden Triangle;
growing domestic drug abuse problem;
source country for chemical
precursors and methamphetamine
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
China, TX (city, FIPS 14704)
Location: 30.05224 N, 94.33564 W
Population (1990): 1144 (463 housing units)
Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
China, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 1112
Housing Units (2000): 458
Land area (2000): 1.288801 sq. miles (3.337980 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008365 sq. miles (0.021665 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.297166 sq. miles (3.359645 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14704
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.054259 N, 94.331882 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
China, TX
China
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