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2001 In China
Events in the year 2001 in China. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Party General Secretary – Jiang Zemin * President of the People's Republic of China, President – Jiang Zemin * Premier of the People's Republic of China, Premier – Zhu Rongji * Vice President of the People's Republic of China, Vice President – Hu Jintao * Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, Vice Premier – Li Lanqing * Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Congress Chairman – Li Peng * Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Conference Chairman – Li Ruihuan Governors * Politics of Anhui, Governor of Anhui Province – Xu Zhonglin * Politics of Fujian, Governor of Fujian Province – Xi Jinping * Gansu, Governor of Gansu Province – Song Zhaosu then Lu Hao (born 1947), Lu Hao * Politics of Guangdong, Governor of Guangdong Province – Lu Ruihua * Polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |