As governor, mainland China's first expressway was built in the province, linking the cities of Shenyang and Dalian.

In fact, it was China's first completed expressway.

Dayun Expressway () is the largest expressway structure in China's Shanxi province.

China's expressway system is longer than that of the European Union and surpassed the length of the United States ' Interstate Highway System in early 2011 ; however, when non-interstate freeways are counted, the U. S. still has a greater total length — approximately.

China's first expressway was built in 1988.

Design standards for China's National Trunk Highway System are derived from the standards used on the American Interstate Highway System, with Chinese expressway cross-sections, interchange profiles, and bridge designs closely reflecting their counterparts in the United States.

The Shenyang – Dalian Expressway, or Shenda Expressway () is a expressway that connects Shenyang and Dalian, the two largest cites of China's Liaoning province.

The Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 agreement in 2006 with China's ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide optical fiber cable network.

The large, continuously upgraded satellite ground stations, originally installed in 1972 to provide live coverage of the visits to China by U. S. president Richard M. Nixon and Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, still served as the base for China's international satellite communications network in the mid-1980s.

With these satellites in place China's domestic satellite communication network went into operation, facilitating television and radio transmissions and providing direct-dial longdistance telephone, telegraph, and facsimile service.

The Central People's Broadcasting Station controlled China's national radio network.

In 1987 China Central Television ( CCTV ), the state network, managed China's television programs.

Although China's transport system comprises a vast network of transport nodes across its huge territory, the nodes tend to concentrate in the more economically developed coastal areas and inland cities along major rivers.

Using an extensive network of cities and settlements in the province of Mawarannahr ( a name given the region after the Arab conquest ) in Uzbekistan and farther east in what is today China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Soghdian intermediaries became the wealthiest of these Iranian merchants.

China's highway network is the second most extensive in the world, with a total length of about 3. 573 million km.

Since mainland China's railroad network was underdeveloped, north-south trade depended heavily on sea lanes.

China's railways operate an extensive network of sleeper trains throughout the country, covering all provincial capitals and many major cities.

By the cotton period, Elvin says that China's trade network had reached an advanced and highly efficient state.

In November 19, 1951, Zhou called a conference in Shenyang to discuss improvements to China's logistical network, but these did little to directly resolve China's supply problems.

Since mainland China's railroad network was underdeveloped, north-south trade depended heavily on sea lanes.

Since mainland China's railroad network was underdeveloped, north-south trade depended heavily on sea lanes.

China's urban and rural primary health care network has persisted in prophylactic health work.

Hotan is connected to the rest of China's rail network via the Kashgar-Hotan Railway, which opened to freight traffic in December 2010.

In 1988 Wu met with the curator of the East Asian Studies department at the Hoover Institution at Stanford to explain his interest in studying the China's network of forced-labor prison camps.

The complex is located at the centre of an extensive and efficient air, land, and marine transport network which connects Hong Kong to China's Pearl River Delta and the world's business capitals.

:* – Heavy rain and flooding collapse a section of road at about 11: 00 local time and send the debris in an avalanche blocking the Zixi section of the Yingtan-Xiamen Railway of China's railroad network.

The Epoch Times was the first newspaper to report on allegations of widespread, live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners detained in China's network of prisons and labor camps.

In late September, Chen contended that the man in charge of China's spy network continued to operate out of the consulate-general in Sydney.

Lok Ma Chau is the northwestern terminus in Lok Ma Chau on the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line, a branch line of the East Rail Line of Hong Kong's MTR network, which was built to alleviate the immigration checkpoint between Hong Kong and mainland China's Shenzhen at Lo Wu Station.

Japan's NHK is a non-commercial network similar to the BBC, funded by a television license fee, and has more editorial independence over news and current affairs than broadcasters like India's state-run Doordarshan or China's China Central Television ( CCTV ).

but if he is up against China's crusading spirit in world affairs, he is going to be faced with the most agonizing choice in his life.

In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

Therefore, pure antimony is not used to make hard objects: coins made of antimony were issued in China's Guizhou province in 1931, but because of their rapid wear, their minting was discontinued.

* 1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.

With the growing importance and influence of China's economy globally, Mandarin instruction is gaining popularity in schools in the USA, and has become an increasingly popular subject of study amongst the young in the Western world, as in the UK.

The Song Dynasty is considered by many to be classical China's high point in science and technology, with innovative scholar-officials such as Su Song ( 1020 – 1101 ) and Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).

Also sponsored by the PRC is the view that Chinese history should include all of China's ethnic groups past and present ( Zhonghua Minzu ), not just the history of the Han Chinese.

For example, the 14th Dalai Lama, long insistent on Tibet's history being separate from that of China's, conceded in 2005 that Tibet " is a part " of China's " 5000-year history " as part of a new proposal for Tibetan autonomy.

Korean nationalists have virulently reacted against China's application to UNESCO of Goguryeo tombs in Chinese territory: the absolute independence of Goguryeo is a central aspect of Korean identity, because according to Korean legend, it was comparatively independent from China and Japan, in contrast to subordinate states like the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire.

Yu the Great, one of China's legendary founders, is mostly known for his control of the flood.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

* 2004: DHgate. com, China's first online b2b transaction platform, is established, forcing other b2b sites to move away from the " yellow pages " model.

Still, possessing, manufacturing and import / exporting airsoft guns with a muzzle energy that no more than or above two joules of kinetic energy is legal to citizens in China's SARs.

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

Although Mao's stated goals of combating bureaucracy, encouraging popular participation, and stressing China's self-reliance are generally seen as laudable — and the rapid industrialization that began during Mao's reign is credited for laying a foundation for China's development in the late 20th century — the harsh methods he used to pursue them, including torture and executions, have been widely rebuked as being ruthless and self-defeating.

China's current militia is a mass force engaged in daily production under the leadership of the Communist Party of China ( CCP ), forms part of the Chinese armed forces.

China's response to the USS Pueblo crisis is less clear.

China has counseled North Korea ’ s leaders to gradually open the economy to market forces, and it is possible this path will be successfully followed as well as China's policy of keeping political control firmly in the hands of the Communist Party.

Nepal is landlocked by India on three sides and China's Xizang Autonomous Region ( Tibet ) to the north.

Nigeria has since become an important source of oil and petroleum for China's rapidly-growing economy and Nigeria is looking to China for help in achieving high economic growth ; China has provided extensive economic, military and political support.

The demographics of the People's Republic of China are identified by a large population with a relatively small youth division, which is partially a result of the China's one-child policy.