By Ben Panev 2013 5/6 B

Population
China is a very heavily populated country with an approximant amount of 1.330,044,600 people living there. 60 percent of Chinese people speak Mandarin, 25 percent speak Cantinas and 15 percent of the people have migrated to China. Chinas growth rate is approximately 0.63 percent every year. Chinas population growth is 1,566,056 but is still increasing each day. Chinas birth rate this year is 3,896,397, which leads to Chinas big population.

Animals

The increase in Chinas population throughout 19491989

The Giant Panda is found in China. 240 Giant Pandas were captured from the wilderness. This time, only about 100 Giant Pandas still survive in local zoo centres. Shanghai Zoological Park started raising Giant Pandas in 1957. Up to 1994, 15 giant pandas were born, but not one baby survived. Up to 1995, three giant pandas were born. They belong to the Chongqing Zoo and one belongs to the Shanghai Zoo. The giant panda has very little prey which they are jackals, leopards and the yellow-throated marten. The yellow-throated marten sometimes eat little giant panda cubs. Their diet is 99 percent bamboo and eat almost 26-84 pounds of it a day.

The Giant Panda

The yellow represents where the Giant Pandas live

Capital city
Beijing is the capital city of the Republic of China. After the city of Shanghai, Beijing is the second largest city in China. In 2012 Beijings population was 20,693,000 and the area size was 16,801 sq. Kilometres. To this day, Beijing has become one of the world most popular tourist destinations, with approximately 140 million Chinese tourists and 4.4 million international visitors in a year.

Food

Beijing National Stadium Birds Nest

Beijing at night

The most popular dishes in China are Dumplings, Sweet and Sour Pork, Spring Rolls, Ma Po Tofu, Peaking Duck, Wontons, Chow Mein and Gong Bao Chicken. Sweet and Sour Pork is a very bright orange colour to the pork, and is covered in a sweet and sour sauce. The main ingredients in the Gong Bao Chicken is diced chicken, dried chilli and fried peanuts. Ma Po Tofu has a hot, spicy taste which comes from pepper powder. The Tofu is mixed with brown, red ground beef chopped grown onion. Wontons are shaped as a right triangle, similar looking to an Italian Tortalini. They are usually cooked in soup or deep fried. The filling is minced meet or diced up shrimp.

Dumplings

Peaking Duck

Spring Rolls

Ma Po Tufo

Tourist Attractions
Some of the famous tourist attractions in China are The Summer place, the Great Wall of China, and the Temple of heaven. The Summer Place was built in 1750. The Summer place has an overlook on one of Chinas lakes. The Temple of heaven was built in 1420. The Great Wall of China was built by man-made structure construction started in the 7th century BC. The Great Wall of China was built to keep out the warring from the north out. The Great Wall of China is approximately 6,700 kilometres long.

Sport

The Great Wall of China

Some of Chinas famous sports are table tennis, soccer, badminton, diving, basketball, chess, and gymnastics. Table tennis is also referred as ping pong. China has won 24 gold medals by competing in the Olympics in total China has won 42 medals. Basketball was popular only in the 1900s the Chinas basketball team played in the Olympics to but the only won 15 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals. In total they won 18 medals. The sport Badminton, china competed in the world championships in 1977. In the Olympics, China won 38 medals. 16 were gold, 8 were silver and 14 were bronze. Chinas diving team competed in the 2012 Olympic Games. China won 59 medals. 33 were gold, 17 were silver and 9 were bronze. China also participates in soccer, gymnastics and chess.

Music instruments

Badminton China winning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in diving Some of Chinas traditional instruments are the Jinghu, Pipa, Gong, Ruan and

Xiao. The Jinghu instrument is a very high pitched sound and it became very popular in 1790. China was thinking to put it in the Beijing opera. Pipa is one of the oldest and one of chinas well known instrument. It has been in the Chinese orchestra for 2,000 years and is a part of Chinas history. The Gong is a very old and traditional instrument. The sound is made by hitting the metal plate with a large stick. Ruan is a type of guitar it is called the moon guitar and it comes in all different sizes and pitch. The Xiao is a very popular wind instrument.

Flag
The Chinese flag includes a solid red background, a yellow golden star in the top left hand corner which larger than the four smaller stars which semicircle around the yellow star has five colour of the flag revolution. The symbolizes the (which rules China), stars represent the China.

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Jing Hu

larger star. Each Pipa points. The red symbolizes larger star Communist Party and the smaller republic people of

Ruan

The Chinese Flag

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