The DTMB standard has been adopted in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), including Hong Kong and Macau.

The third constitution of the PRC was adopted in 1978.

Article 96 of the PRC Law on Food Safety adopted on February 28, 2009 raises the punitive damages to ten times the purchase price additional to the compensatory damages that the victim has already claimed from the producer or seller for food with poor quality not compliant to food safety standards.

After the ROC complained to the United Nations against the Soviet Union supporting the PRC, the UN General Assembly Resolution 505 was adopted on February 1, 1952 to condemn the Soviet Union.

Therefore " mainland China " generally continues to exclude these territories, because of the " One country, two systems " policy adopted by the PRC central government towards the regions.

Western media initially adopted this language after the PRC government's media reports, but soon began using less loaded terms.

The Taiwan Relations Act does not require the U. S. to intervene militarily if the PRC attacks or invades Taiwan, and the U. S. has adopted a policy of " strategic ambiguity " in which the U. S. neither confirms nor denies that it would intervene in such a scenario.

On mainland China, the PRC government has on the surface adopted a neutral policy on Taiwanization and its highest level leaders publicly proclaim it does not consider the Taiwanization movement to be either a violation of its One China Policy or equivalent to the independence movement.

Similarly, all states that recognise the PRC either recognise the PRC as the legitimate representative of Taiwan or acknowledge the PRC's views on the matter — the latter is the position adopted by the United States, which prefers to leave that question ambiguous.

One interpretation, which was adopted during the Cold War, is that either the PRC or the ROC is the sole rightful government of all China and that the other government is illegitimate.

After the ROC complained to the United Nations against the Soviet Union supporting the PRC, the UN General Assembly Resolution 505 was adopted on February 1, 1952 to condemn the Soviet Union.

Resultantly, contradicting Stalin, Khrushchev was advocating the idea of “ Peaceful Coexistence ”, between communist and capitalist nations — which directly challenged Mao ’ s “ lean-to-one-side ” foreign policy, adopted after the Chinese Civil War, when he feared direct Japanese or US military intervention, the circumstances that pragmatically required a PRC – Soviet alliance.

The Popular Resistance Committees ( PRC ) ( Arabic: لجان المقاومة الشعبية, Lijān al-Muqāwama al-Shaʿbiyya ) are a coalition of various armed Palestinian factions that oppose the conciliatory approach adopted by the Palestinian Authority and Fatah towards Israel.

After the ROC complained to the United Nations against the Soviet Union supporting the PRC, the UN General Assembly Resolution 505 was adopted on February 1, 1952 to condemn the Soviet Union.

In contrast to the PRC, in the official translation adopted in the ROC, both xiāng ( 鄉 ) and zhèn ( 鎮 ) are translated as " townships ", with zhèn specifically being " urban " township, ' with xiāng specifically translated as " rural " township

Copyright law is mainly governed by the Copyright Law of the PRC ( 中华人民共和国著作权法 ) and the Implementing Rules for the Copyright Law of the PRC ( 著作权法实施条例 ), the Copyright Law of the PRC adopted and promulgated in 1990 and the " Implementing Rules " adopted in 1991 and revised in 2002.

Hence, the laws in force are in hierarchical order are The Hong Kong Basic Law ; legislation in force before 1 July 1997 that was adopted as laws of the HKSAR by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ; laws enacted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong after 1997 ; and PRC laws listed in Annex III to the Basic Law and applied by way of promulgation or legislation ; Common law and Equity ; Subordinate legislation ; Customary law.

The change in name was a result of the Nagoya Resolution, adopted by the International Olympic Committee in 1979 due to objections by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) over the political status of Taiwan.

Although the PRC needs economic growth to spur its development, the government has begun to worry that rapid economic growth has negatively impacted the country's resources and environment.

Because of the strength of the Communist Party of China and the importance of the Marxist interpretation of history in legitimizing its rule, it was for many years difficult for historians within the PRC to actively argue in favor of non-Marxist and anti-Marxist interpretations of history.

Under the Basic Law of Hong Kong, its diplomatic relations and defence are the responsibility of the Central People's Government of the PRC.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

The architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) from its establishment in 1949, he governed the country as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until his death in 1976.

This was inaugurated with the visit of U. S. President Richard Nixon to the PRC in 1972 and the US supporting the PRC replacing the Republic of China as the representative of China at the United Nations and taking its seat at the UN Security Council.

Finally, the PRC exploded its first atomic bomb in October 1964 and subsequently refused to give North Korea any nuclear weapons of its own, apparently fearing that Kim was too likely to use them in his quest to reunify the peninsula.

In the last several years, the PRC has made progress in modernizing its surface fleet with the purchase of Sovremenny class destroyers, as well as producing sophisticated domestic designs such as the Lanzhou class destroyers and.

Today, it is one of five religions recognized in the PRC, and although it does not travel readily from its Asian roots, claims adherents in a number of societies.

The PRC had a provisional constitution from its inception until the enactment of its first constitution in 1954.

Many of these emigrants who entered Western countries were themselves overseas Chinese, particularly from the 1950s to the 1980s, a period during which the PRC placed severe restrictions on the movement of its citizens.

The PRC still actively claims Taiwan as part of its territory and continues to threaten the ROC with a military invasion if the ROC officially declares independence by changing its name to and gaining international recognition as the Republic of Taiwan.

Though viewed as a military liability by the United States, the ROC viewed its remaining islands in Fujian as vital for any future campaign to defeat the PRC and retake mainland China.

The Tibet Autonomous Region is the second-largest province-level division of China by area, spanning over, after Xinjiang, and mostly due to its harsh and rugged terrain, is the least densely populated provincial-level division of the PRC.

But in its relations with Hong Kong and Macau, the PRC government refers to itself as " the Central People's Government ".

According to Zhao, through The Epoch Times it can be discerned how Falun Gong is building a " de facto media alliance " with China's democracy movements in exile, as demonstrated by its frequent printing of articles by prominent overseas Chinese critics of the PRC government.

Among the most persistent controversies surrounding Falun Gong is its characterization by the PRC government as " xiejiao "— a " heterodox organization ", " evil religion ", or " evil cult ".

* The term border dispute applies only to the many cases where a limit territory bordering more than one state ( including an enclave in one state such as Nagorno Karabakh ) is claimed by two or more, not the very existence of a whole state challenged ( such as the Republic of China, which the People's Republic of China regards as a defunct and illegitimate entity, with its current jurisdiction of Taiwan claimed by the PRC as its 23rd province ).

João Manuel Bernardo, the current ambassador of Angola to China, visited the PRC in November 2007.

As a result, under current CPC General Secretary and President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, the PRC has initiated policies to address these issues of equitable distribution of resources, but the outcome remains to be seen.

The CPC's current policies are fiercely rejected as capitalist by most communists, especially anti-revisionists, and by adherents of the Chinese New Left from within the PRC.

The current Constitution of the PRC was enacted in 1982 and reflects the model of the first PRC constitution.

Although the current position allows for flexibility in terms of defining that " one China ", any departure from the One-China policy is deemed unacceptable by the PRC government.

A modified form of the " One China " principle known as the 1992 Consensus is the current policy of both the PRC and ROC governments.

Citizens of the PRC are not subject to the Taiwanese immigration law, but the " Act Governing Relations between Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area ", which is however stricter than the immigration law due to the current relationship between China's and Taiwan's governments.

Commenter Lucian Pye has argued that the modern " nation state " is fundamentally different from a traditional empire, and argues that dynamics of the current People's Republic of China ( PRC ) — a concentration of power at a central point of authority – share an essential similarity with the Ming and Qing Empires.

Moreover, from 1981 to 1982, Deng Xiaoping distanced the PRC from the United States because of its weapons sales to the Nationalist Republic of China in Taiwan island, and because the PRC was the junior partner in the current Sino-American relations.

In December 1986, student demonstrators, taking advantage of the loosening political atmosphere, staged protests against the slow pace of reform, confirming party elders ' fears that the current reform program was leading to a kind of social instability, the same kind that killed hundreds of millions between the years of the Opium War and the founding of the PRC.

Experimental estimation of PRC in living, regular-spiking neurons involves measuring the changes in inter-spike interval in response to a small perturbation, such as a transient pulse of current.

However, the PRC has only indirectly reported the current protests in state-owned media, withholding coverage from a national audience.

A report from Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said that China's current charm offensive is only accommodating on issues that do not undermine China's claim to Taiwan and that the PRC would invade if Taiwan declared independence, developed weapons of mass destruction, or suffered from civil chaos.