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   Names of China

   In its origin, it refers to the area where the Tiānzǐ lives, while the outer areas governed by the same sovereign is called "yě" (野). ... Although the name Sinae appears to be derived from the same etymological source as the Latin prefixes Sino- and Sin-, which are traditionally used to refer to China and the Chinese, there is some controversy as to the ultimate origin of these terms, as their use in historical texts of classical antiquity in the West appears to antedate the emergence of the Qin Dynasty and its empire, the name of which has often been cited as the source of Latin Sino- and Sin-.
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   History of the west coast of North America

   One available source that was used on both sides of the border were immigrants from East Asia, largely from China and Japan.
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   China

   It has the world's longest continuously used written language system, and is the source of many major inventions, such as what the British scholar and biochemist Joseph Needham called the "four great inventions of Ancient China": paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. ... Taoism is an indigenous religion of China and its beginnings are traditionally traced to the composition of Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching (The Book of Tao and Its Virtues) or to seminal works by Zhang Daoling.
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   List of Chinese inventions

   China has been the source of some of the world's most significant inventions, including the Four Great Inventions of ancient China: paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing (both woodblock and movable type). ... The post-Liangzhu plows used draft animals.
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   Germanium

   Russia and China used this as a source for germanium.
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   Chinese protein export contamination

   The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recommends that only amino acid analysis be used to determine protein in, inter alia, foods used as the sole source of nourishment, such as infant formula, but also provides: "When data on amino acids analyses are not available, determination of protein based on total N content by Kjeldahl (AOAC, 2000) or similar method ... is considered acceptable." ... Category · List of China-related topics
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   Economy of the People's Republic of China

   Hong Kong has been a major conduit of this investment, as well as a source itself. ... China is interested in diversifying the sources of its oil imports and has invested in oil fields around the world.
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   Republic of China

   Since the late 1970s the name "China" is commonly used to refer to the People's Republic of China. ... | | Source texts |
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   People's Republic of China

   Censorship of political speech and information is openly and routinely used to silence criticism of government and the ruling Chinese Communist Party. ... The latter has been blamed for China's bulging trade surplus (US$262.7 billion in 2007) and has become a major source of dispute between China and its major trading partners – the US, EU, and Japan – despite the yuan having been de-pegged and risen in value by 20% against the US dollar since 2005.
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    Industrial history of the People's Republic of China

    However, China's electronics industry, like most other industries, was at the time far from implementing advanced technology, whatever its source. ... Much of the iron and coking coal used in making steel was of low quality.

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• Industrial history of the People's Republic of China