The PRC has invested heavily in Angola since the end of the civil war in 2002.

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.

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

The PRC has maintained a hostile position toward the DPP.

Standard Chinese has official status as the standard spoken form of the Chinese language in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the Republic of China ( ROC ) and the Republic of Singapore.

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 PRC has an extensive missile build-up near Taiwan and passed an Anti-Secession Law in 2005 threatening to use force.

Political power has become much less personal and more institutionally based than it was during the first forty years of the PRC.

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.

The PRC has continuously advocated the possibility of moving some or all of these military facilities to Hainan, although this may not be taken up due to sensitivities in diplomatic relations between Singapore and her largely Islamic neighbours.

In most of the history of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), in order to funnel wealth to the rural areas, Shanghai has been a comparatively heavy contributor of tax revenue to the central government.

The free PP Compiler runs directly on the handheld computer, while PocketStudio is a Delphi-like IDE for Windows Computers that has a visual form designer and generates PRC files for being transferred to handhelds via HotSync.

In drafting the new laws, the PRC has declined to copy any other legal system wholesale, and the general pattern has been to issue laws for a specific topic or location.

In formulating laws, the PRC has been influenced by a number of sources including traditional Chinese views toward the role of law, the PRC's socialist background, the German-based law of the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the English-based common law used in Hong Kong.

The state of Chinese demographics at the time was very poor, and the PRC has been hesitant to allow formal research into the period.

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.

By 1984, PRC and ROC had public contacts with each other and cross-straits trade and investment has been growing ever since.

The PRC has border disputes with the Republic of India over the McMahon Line of Arunachal Pradesh, known to the Chinese as " South Tibet ".

The official policy of the Republic of China, the government that has ruled Taiwan since acquiring it from Japan in 1945, supports Chinese reunification in the sense that the united body would be governed by the ROC, and not the PRC.

However, changes in the political situation in Taiwan has led the PRC to take a more flexible stance.

Since the mid-1990s, the standard practice used of the PRC press has been to refer to ROC government as the " Taiwan authority " () and the ROC President as the " leader of the Taiwan Area " (), where both terms are not used in conjunction with quotation marks.

The LY-60 / FD-60 / PL-10 is a family of PRC missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, largely based on the Italian Aspide missile-a version of the Sparrow.

Taiwan broke off relations with Chad on August 5, 2006 ( hours before a scheduled official visit by Premier Su Tseng-chang ) and Chad formally recognized the PRC on August 6.

The PRC adopted its current constitution on 4 December 1982.

Mao Zedong's revolution that founded the PRC was nominally based on Marxism-Leninism with a rural focus based on China's social situations at the time.

President Chen had offered the position of Presidential Office Secretary-General ( vacated by Su ) to the departing premier, but Hsieh declined and left office criticizing President Chen for his tough line on dealing with the PRC.

On 10 December 2005, the New Zealand Herald quoted Tavola as saying that Fiji would have to find a way to resolve a stand-off between the PRC and Taiwan, over membership of the Suva-based Council of South Pacific Tourism Organisation ; China was resisting Taiwanese attempts to join the organization on an equal basis.

Some were Bs in the most precise sense, produced to run on the bottom of double bills by a low-budget unit of one of the major studios or by one of the smaller, so-called Poverty Row outfits, from the relatively well-off Monogram to shakier ventures such as Producers Releasing Corporation ( PRC ).

It should also be noted that the wording of the Basic Law on the term of the Chief Executive is substantially different from the articles in the PRC constitution concerning the length of term of the president, premier, etc.

With the authorisation of the Central People ’ s Government of the PRC, Hong Kong also concluded 12 bilateral agreements with foreign states on air services, investment promotion and protection, mutual legal assistance and visa abolition during the year.

" The PRC claim to sovereignty over Taiwan is generally based on the successor state theory, with the PRC claiming that it is the successor state to the Republic of China.

Negotiations took place in Delhi from December 1953 to April 1954 between the Delegation of the PRC Government and the Delegation of the Indian Government on the relations between the two countries with respect to the disputed territories of Aksai Chin and South Tibet.

The PRC broke off relations with Liberia on October 10, 1989 in response to Liberia's recognition of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

The PRC reestablished relations with Liberia on August 10, 1993 and opened an embassy in Monrovia, making Liberia one of the few nations with established diplomatic ties to both the PRC and ROC.

* 2002 People's Republic of China ( Guangdong and Shenzhen, chartered on May 14, are the first international service clubs to be granted permission by the government of the PRC to operate in mainland China )

Official proclamations stated that the DPRK and PRC were in " complete agreement " on all major issues.

A severe diplomatic row broke out between the PRC and Singapore when Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan a month before being sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Singapore on 12 August 2004.

On 22 March 2005, however, the Singaporean defence ministry had to quickly correct an erroneous report in the Liberty Times on a joint military exercise between Singapore and Taiwan, This report caused the PRC government to demand an explanation.

Taiwan, as an independent economy, became a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) as Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu ( often shortened to " Chinese Taipei "- both names resulting from PRC interference on the WTO ) in January 2002.

In addition to the WTO, Taiwan is a member of the Asian Development Bank as " Taipei, China " ( a name resulting from PRC influence on the bank ) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) forum as " Chinese Taipei " ( for the same reason as above ).

The recent resolutions have all emphasized that Resolution 2758, replacing the ROC with the PRC in 1971, only addressed the question of who should have China's seat in the UN rather than whether an additional seat for the Taiwan Area can be created to represent the 23 million people on Taiwan and the ROC's other islands.

Thailand established diplomatic relations with the PRC on 1 July 1975.