For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

Tibet has historically served China as a buffer state.

For some time, China has been the largest producer of antimony and its compounds, with most production coming from the Xikuangshan Mine in Hunan.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Arbor Day ( 植樹節 ) has been a traditional holiday in the Republic of China since 1927.

Aston Martin has also boosted its worldwide appeal by opening more dealers in Europe, as well as branches in China for the first time in its 93 year history in Beijing and Shanghai.

Since the 1980s, the People's Republic of China has constructed a new legal framework for administrative law, establishing control mechanisms for overseeing the bureaucracy and disciplinary committees for the Communist Party of China.

The ASROC has been deployed on scores of warships of many other navies, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of China, Greece, Pakistan and others.

The only other nation that fields strategic bombing forces is the People's Republic of China, which has a number of Xian H-6s.

However, Brazil is the only country besides China and Russia that has land borders with 10 or more nations.

In recent years, it has given high priority in establishing political dialogue with other strategic actors such as India, Russia, China and South Africa through participation in international groupings such as BASIC, IBSA and BRICS.

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

Bromine is rarer than about three-quarters of elements in the Earth's crust ; however, the high solubility of bromide ion has caused its accumulation in the oceans, and commercially the element is easily extracted from brine pools, mostly in the United States, Israel and China.

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

Population density also has a major impact, where dense urbanisation such as in Japan and the far east has led to the adoption of high capacity long multi-axle buses, often double-deckers, while South America and China are implementing large numbers of articulated buses for bus rapid transit schemes.

This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the U. S. of large-scale field testing of biological warfare against them during the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), but this claim has been disputed.

China has had historical trading links with the inhabitants of the island.

Ownership has since been transferred to BOCHK, although the Bank of China has leased back several floors for use by its own operations in Hong Kong.

Since the mid 1980s, the United States has had a growing deficit in tradeable goods, especially with Asian nations ( China and Japan ) which now hold large sums of U. S debt that has funded the consumption.

China, a high growth economy, has tended to run trade surpluses.

The name " Republic of China " was briefly added on January 27, 2005, but has since been changed back to " none ".

He then took a train to Hangzhou in China, before continuing onto Shanghai ; because of the ongoing Chinese Civil War, the train did not stop throughout the entire journey, something that annoyed the passengers.

Although most of Nepal's military equipment are imports from neighboring India or the People's Republic of China, Nepal has received 20, 000 M-16 rifles, as well as night vision equipment from the United States to assist ongoing efforts in the post-September 11 global War on Terror campaign.

However, a study of uranium / lead ratios of zircons from rock sequences in multiple locations in southern China date the extinction to 252. 28 ± 0. 08 Ma ; an earlier study of rock sequences near Meishan in Changxing County of Zhejiang Province, China date the extinction to 251. 4 ± 0. 3 Ma, with an ongoing elevated extinction rate occurring for some time thereafter.

In the late 18th century, wars within Europe as well as an ongoing trade deficit with China ( which sold to Europe but had little use for European goods ) drained silver from the economies of Western Europe and the United States.

This decade witnessed the continuing decline of the Achaemenid Empire, fierce warfare amongst the Greek city-states during the Peloponnesian War, the ongoing Warring States Period in Zhou dynasty China, and the closing years of the Olmec civilization ( lasting from c. 1200 – 400 BC ) in modern-day Mexico.

* The dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan, and over various Himalayan regions between China and India, ongoing since 1947 in the former case and 1962 in the latter, have led to the formation of the line of control and the Line of Actual Control respectively.

Kita — who held views on Russia and Korea from almost a decade earlier that were already remarkably similar to those espoused by the Kokuryukai — was sent by that organization as a special member, who would write for them from China and send reports on the ongoing situation at the time of the 1911 Xinhai revolution.

** Also there are ongoing fruit series: orange and mango, raspberry and blueberry, grape and peach in China.

The Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau Bridge is an ongoing construction project which consist of a series of bridges and tunnels that will connect Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, three major cities on the Pearl River Delta in southern China.

At the same time the crisis between the Soviet Union and China reached its peak when the Chinese leader Mao Zedong criticized the ongoing process of de-Stalinization in the USSR, and accused Khruschev of deviations " opportunistic " and " reformist ".

Its Asian programs have expanded in recent years due to the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the new challenge of coordinating with India and China on climate change efforts.

A delegation of overseas Koreans, from Japan, China, and Hawaii, sought to gain international support for independence at the ongoing Paris Peace Conference.

Front-page headlines continue to present society with public health issues on a daily basis: emerging infectious diseases such as SARS, rapidly making its way from China ( see Public health in China ) to Canada, the United States and other geographically distant countries ; reducing inequities in health care access through publicly funded health insurance programs ; the HIV / AIDS pandemic and its spread from certain high-risk groups to the general population in many countries, such as in South Africa ; the increase of childhood obesity and the concomitant increase in type II diabetes among children ; the social, economic and health impacts of adolescent pregnancy ; and the ongoing public health challenges related to natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2005's Hurricane Katrina in the United States and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin joins the ongoing excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, China, as an advisor.

* It was initially reported that the explosion was the result of a collision between two trains carrying gasoline ( petrol ) and liquified petroleum gas, possibly donated by China to alleviate the ongoing North Korean fuel shortage.

In the context of the ongoing Cold War, PAIGC guerrillas received Kalashnikovs from the USSR, bazookas from Cuba and recoilless rifles from the People's Republic of China.

In 2010, Chinese Arts Centre organised a Liberation Exhibition-an exhibition growing out of an ongoing discussion with Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding following the blocked use of a selection of social networking and self-publishing websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube in China.

In China, investigations are ongoing to establish on which technology its traffic information system will be based.

Later, the Pope returns to the Soviet Union to meet privately with Kamenev and Chairman Peng ( Burt Kwouk ) of China to discuss the ongoing crisis.

Tony Lambert doubts the numbers claimed by outsiders such as Yun are not substantiated, but the ongoing work of evangelism, both within China and beyond its borders, is being done anonymously by Chinese church members, who make no appeals for money.

Gansu province in China and semi-arid north east Brazil have the largest rooftop rainwater harvesting projects ongoing.