Fiktiv China

Anthem: Song to the Auspicious Cloud
Capital: Beijing
Largest city: Shanghai
Official languages: Standard Chinese
Recognised regional languages: Mongolian, Uyghur, Tibetan, Zhuang, various others
Official script: Simplified Chinese
Ethnic groups: Majority Han Chinese (55 minorities)
Religion:
73.6% No religion or Folk
15.8% Buddhism
5.5% Salvationist sects
3.6% Christianity
1.5% Islam
Demonym(s): Chinese
Government: Unitary parliamentary republic
President: Sheng Xue
Premier: Chin Jin
Congress Chairman: Jin Xiuhong
Legislature: National Congress (1210; Democracy Party of China 888, Young China Party 127, Jiusan Society 69, Chinese United League 55, China Zhi Gong Party 38, New Democracy Party of China 20, China Socialism Party 9, Independent 4)
Formation
• First pre-imperial dynasty
c. 2070 BCE
• First imperial dynasty
221 BCE
• Republic established
1 January 1912
• Proclamation of the People's Republic
1 October 1949
• First constitution
20 September 1954
• Tiananmen Square Revolution
15 April - 4 June 1989
• Current constitution
17 November 1989
Area
• Total
9,596,961 km2 (3,705,407 sq mi) (3rd/4th)
• Water (%)
2.8
Population
• 2019 estimate
Increase 1,440,950,000 (1st)
• Density
145/km2 (375.5/sq mi) (83rd)
GDP (PPP) 2020 estimate
• Total
Increase $24.2 trillion (1st)
• Per capita
Increase $17,206 (73rd)
GDP (nominal) 2020 estimate
• Total
Increase $14.9 trillion (2nd)
• Per capita
Increase $10,839 (59th)
Gini (2018) Negative increase 46.7
high
HDI (2019) Increase 0.761
high · 85th
Currency: Renminbi (yuan)
Time zone: UTC+8 (China Standard Time)
Date format: yyyy-mm-dd
Driving side: right
Calling code: +86
ISO 3166 code: CN
Internet TLD: .cn

China, officially the Republic of China is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.4 billion in 2019. Covering approximately 9.6 million square kilometers (3.7 million mi2), it is the world's third or fourth-largest country by area. The country officially divides itself into 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, and four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing).

China emerged as one of the world's first civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. China was one of the world's foremost economic powers for most of the two millennia from the 1st until the 19th century. For millennia, China's political system was based on absolute hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the 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 (206 BCE–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. The Qing Empire, China's last dynasty, suffered heavy losses to foreign imperialism. The Chinese monarchy collapsed in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when the Republic of China (ROC) replaced the Qing dynasty. China was invaded by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The Chinese Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949 when the CCP led by Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China on mainland China while the Kuomintang-led ROC government retreated to the island of Taiwan. In the wake of the 1989 events, notably through the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the communist government was dissolved and China re-established itself as a unitary parliamentary republic.

China is the largest economy in the world by PPP since 2014, the second-largest by nominal GDP since 2010, the world's largest manufacturing economy since 2010, and the second-wealthiest nation in the world. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, the economy of China has produced numerous significant achievements. They include the country being the world's fastest-growing major economy (since 1978 China’s GDP growth has averaged almost 10 percent a year), the continuation of the world's fastest rise in GDP per capita recorded from 1960 to 2018, the world's highest amount of exports, the world's fastest-growing consumer market, the world's largest banking sector (with assets of $40 trillion and the world's top four largest banks all being in China), having three of the world's top ten most competitive financial centers (Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen) in the 2020 Global Financial Centres Index (more than any other country), lifting more than 850 million people out of poverty, and having the highest number of people in the top 10% of the wealthiest individuals in the world.

Due to China's large population and area, the administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times. The constitution of China provides for three de jure levels of government. Currently, however, there are five practical levels of local government: the provincial (province, autonomous region and municipality), prefecture, county, township, and village. Since the 17th century, provincial boundaries in China have remained largely static. Major changes since then have been the reorganization of provinces in the northeast after the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the formation of autonomous regions, based on Soviet ethnic policies. The provinces serve an important cultural role in China, as people tend to identify with their native province.

The Constitution of China provides for four levels: the provincial (province, autonomous region and municipality), the prefectural (prefecture-level city [officially "city with district-level divisions" and "city without district-level divisions"], autonomous prefecture, prefecture [additional division] and league [the alternative name of “prefecture” which is used in Inner Mongolia]), county (district, county, county-level city [officially “city without district-level divisions”], autonomous county, banner [the alternative name of “county” which is used in Inner Mongolia], autonomous banner [the alternative name of “autonomous county” which is used in Inner Mongolia], special district [additional division], forestry area [additional division]) and township. The fifth level which is commonly known as “village level” is actually not an administrative level. The Constitution of China designs the fifth level as “basic level autonomy”.

Provinces of China:
Anhui Province Hefei
Beijing Municipality
Chongqing Municipality
Fujian Province Fuzhou
Guangdong Province Guangzhou
Gansu Province Lanzhou
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Nanning
Guizhou Province Guiyang
Henan Province Zhengzhou
Hubei Province Wuhan
Hebei Province Shijiazhuang
Hainan Province Haikou
Heilongjiang Province Harbin
Hunan Province Changsha
Jilin Province Changchun
Jiangsu Province Nanjing
Jiangxi Province Nanchang
Liaoning Province Shenyang
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hohhot
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Yinchuan
Qinghai Province Xining
Sichuan Province Chengdu
Shandong Province Jinan
Shanghai Municipality
Shaanxi Province Xi'an
Shanxi Province Taiyuan
Tianjin Municipality
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Ürümqi
Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa
Yunnan Province Kunming
Zhejiang Province Hangzhou