* Agricultural Bank of China, a bank in the People's Republic of China

Examples include the European Central Bank ( ECB ), the Federal Reserve of the United States, and the People's Bank of China.

The People's Bank of China evolved its role as a central bank starting in about 1979 with the introduction of market reforms, which accelerated in 1989 when the country adopted a generally capitalist approach to its export economy.

Evolving further partly in response to the European Central Bank, the People's Bank of China has by 2000 become a modern central bank.

For example the People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan have on occasion bought several hundred billions of U. S. Treasuries, presumably in order to stop the decline of the U. S. dollar versus the renminbi and the yen.

The People's Bank of China retains ( and uses ) more powers over reserves because the yuan that it manages is a non-convertible currency.

Even the People's Bank of China has been accorded great latitude due to the difficulty of problems it faces, though in the People's Republic of China the official role of the bank remains that of a national bank rather than a central bank, underlined by the official refusal to " unpeg " the yuan or to revalue it " under pressure ".

** President of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Ri Kwang-gon ( since April 2009 )

The United States, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, France, the People's Republic of China, the World Bank, the UN Development Programme and the European Development Fund will continue to account for the substantial aid.

These comments, made by a chairman of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, drew media attention, and the IMF showed some support for China's stance.

The People's Bank of China ( PBC or PBOC ) is the central bank of the People's Republic of China with the power to control monetary policy and regulate financial institutions in mainland China.

The People's Bank of China has the most financial assets of any single public finance institution ever.

Although stated in the above section, that the People's Bank of China, ( PBoC ), is the single largest financial institution in the world, PBoC is in fact the largest central bank at US $ 3. 201 trillion.

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Other major sources of aid to Papua New Guinea are Japan, the European Union, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

It is issued by the People's Bank of China, the monetary authority of China.

As the Communist Party of China took control of ever larger territories in the latter part of the Chinese Civil War, its People's Bank of China began in 1948 to issue a unified currency for use in Communist-controlled territories.

Also denominated in yuan, this currency was identified by different names, including " People's Bank of China banknotes " (; from November 1948 ), " New Currency " (; from December 1948 ), " People's Bank of China notes " (; from January 1949 ), " People's Notes " ( 人民券, as an abbreviation of the last name ), and finally " People's Currency ", or " renminbi ", from June 1949.

In January 2007, Manuel Inocêncio Sousa, Minister of Infrastructure, Transports and Sea, acknowledged the People's Republic of China's importance to Cape Verde stating ,:

Albania's leaders abhorred the People's Republic of China's contacts with the United States in the early 1970s, and its press and radio ignored President Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing in 1972.

* 1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U. S. over the prior two decades.

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.

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

Much of contemporary China's transport systems have been built since the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949.

September 25th 2012, People's Liberation Army Navy took delivery of China's first aircraft carrier ; the Liaoning.

With the People's Republic of China's entry on behalf of North Korea in 1951, the fighting came to a stalemate close to the original line of demarcation.

If some supporters articulate that they agree to the independence of Taiwan, they may either be referring to the notion of formally creating an independent Republic of Taiwan, or to the notion that Taiwan is synonymous with the current Republic of China and already is independent, which is against the People's Republic of China's claim.

John Nkomo, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe, praised China's investment on 24 April 2007 during a state dinner in Harare held during the four-day visit of Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to Zimbabwe.

** In the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution to purge and reorganize China's Communist Party.

* November 23 – The People's Republic of China takes the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council ( see China and the United Nations ).

As a result of a pending trade war with the United States of America over violations of intellectual property rights of American corporations in the early 1990s, the People's Republic of China's trademark law has been modified and now offers significant protections to foreign trademark owners.

Despite its loss of influence during the Tang Dynasty, Confucianist doctrine remained a mainstream Chinese orthodoxy for two millennia until the 20th century, when it was attacked by radical Chinese thinkers as a vanguard of a pre-modern system and an obstacle to China's modernization, eventually culminating in its repression during the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.

Li Peng ( born 20 October 1928 ) served as the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China, between 1987 and 1998, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003.

On April 4, 1976, on the eve of China's annual Qingming Festival, a traditional day of mourning, thousands of people gathered around the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Zhou Enlai.

After four more years, 1950 saw the cessation of major military hostilities — with the newly founded People's Republic of China controlling mainland China ( including Hainan ), and the Republic of China's jurisdiction being restricted to Taiwan, Penghu, Quemoy, Matsu and several outlying islands.

In 1951, the Tibetan representatives signed a seventeen-point agreement with the Chinese Central People's Government affirming China's sovereignty over Tibet.

By 1949, the Communist Party of China's ( CPC ) People's Liberation Army had largely defeated the Kuomintang ( KMT )' s National Revolutionary Army in the Chinese Civil War on the mainland.

Jiang's message was echoed at the 2001 National People's Congress, where Premier Zhu Rongji made special mention of Falun Gong in his outline of the PRC Tenth Five-Year Plan, saying " we must continue our campaign against the Falun Gong cult ", effectively tying Falun Gong's eradication to China's economic progress.

The Republic of China's standardised market tael ( 市两 shìliǎng ) of 31. 25 g was modified by the People's Republic of China in 1959.

The proposals to revise Taiwan's history textbooks were condemned in February 2007 by the People's Republic of China's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council as being part of the desinicization campaign.

He also promised not to change the ROC state symbols or declare formal independence as long as the People's Republic of China did not attack Taiwan.

Albanians celebrate their independence day on 28 November ( which is the date on which they declared their independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912 ), while in the former People's Socialist Republic of Albania the National Liberation festivity date was 29 November.

Finland's declaration of independence on 6 December 1917-though supported by most Finns and soon recognized by the Russian Bolshevist Council of People's Commissars-occurred in the context of the worsening power struggle, and therefore failed to either unite or pacify the nation.

People's Administration ) was convened to vote on declaring independence.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

His desire for her and hatred for the Romans lead him to join the People's Front of Judea ( PFJ ), one of many fractious and bickering independence movements, who spend more time fighting each other than the Romans.

As a result, a month after the South was granted independence as the Republic of Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) was proclaimed on September 9, with Kim as premier.

This peace agreement with the rebel group Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) granted Southern Sudan autonomy for six years, to be followed by a referendum about independence in 2011.

However, Taiwanese independence advocates argue that there is no legal claim to Taiwan, as no legally binding treaty ever transferred sovereignty to China following World War II, an assertion with which not only the People's Republic of China but the Republic of China currently governing Taiwan disagree.

" However, the National Assembly has not officially changed the national borders, as doing so may be seen as a prelude to formal Taiwan independence ( the People's Republic of China has threatened to start a war if the government of Taiwan formalizes independence ).

At the time of independence, portions of the Tajik boundary with the People's Republic of China were not defined.

Taiwanese independence is a political movement whose goals are primarily to formally establish the Republic of Taiwan by renaming or replacing the Republic of China ( ROC ) ( commonly known as Taiwan ), strengthen Taiwanese national identity, reject unification and One country, two systems with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) ( commonly known as China and mainland China ) and a Chinese identity, and obtain international recognition as a sovereign state.

Due to the PRC's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and repeated military threats made by the PRC, a formal declaration of independence could lead to a military confrontation between the Republic of China Armed Forces and the People's Liberation Army of the PRC, escalating and involving other countries, such as the United States and Japan.

During the next decade, it actively supported movements such as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) under the independence war and under the subsequent civil war, the Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU ) and in Southern Rhodesia, the African National Congress ( ANC ) in their struggle against apartheid in South African Republic, and the South-West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ) in their struggle for independence for Namibia.

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

* January 25 – The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.