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China Population: 1,349,585,838
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History | |
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, MAO's successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight. Since the early 1990s, China has increased its global outreach and participation in international organizations. |
Geography | |
World's fourth largest country (after Russia, Canada, and US); Mount Everest on the border with Nepal is the world's tallest peak | |
Location: | Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam |
Geographic coordinates: | 35 00 N, 105 00 E |
Area: | total: 9,596,961 sq km land: 9,569,901 sq km water: 27,060 sq km Size comparison: slightly smaller than the US |
Land Boundaries: | total: 22,117 km border countries: Afghanistan 76 km, Bhutan 470 km, Burma 2,185 km, India 3,380 km, Kazakhstan 1,533 km, North Korea 1,416 km, Kyrgyzstan 858 km, Laos 423 km, Mongolia 4,677 km, Nepal 1,236 km, Pakistan 523 km, Russia (northeast) 3,605 km, Russia (northwest) 40 km, Tajikistan 414 km, Vietnam 1,281 km regional borders: Hong Kong 30 km, Macau 0.34 km |
Coastline: | 14,500 km |
Maritime claims: | territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin |
Climate: | extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north |
Terrain: | mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east |
Elevation extremes: | lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m (highest point in Asia) |
Natural resources: | coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest) |
Land use: | arable land: 11.62% permanent crops: 1.53% other: 86.84% (2011) |
Irrigated land: | 629,380 sq km (2006) |
Natural hazards: | frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence volcanism: China contains some historically active volcanoes including Changbaishan (also known as Baitoushan, Baegdu, or P'aektu-san), Hainan Dao, and Kunlun although most have been relatively inactive in recent centuries |
Current Environment Issues: | air pollution (greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal produces acid rain; China is the world's largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels; water shortages, particularly in the north; water pollution from untreated wastes; deforestation; estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic development; desertification; trade in endangered species |
International Environment Agreements: | party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
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People | |
Nationality: | noun: Chinese (singular and plural) adjective: Chinese |
Ethnic groups: | Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5% (2000 census) |
Languages: | Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) note: Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uighur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet) |
Religions: | Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% note: officially atheist (2002 est.) |
Population: | 1,349,585,838 (July 2013 est.) |
Age structure: | 0-14 years: 17.2% (male 124,773,577/female 107,286,198) 15-24 years: 15.4% (male 109,922,192/female 98,325,568) 25-54 years: 46.7% (male 322,161,347/female 308,101,780) 55-64 years: 11.3% (male 77,374,476/female 75,289,733) 65 years and over: 9.4% (male 60,597,243/female 65,753,724) (2013 est.) |
Dependency ratios: | total dependency ratio: 36.8 % youth dependency ratio: 24.7 % elderly dependency ratio: 12.1 % potential support ratio: 8.2 (2013) |
Median age: | total: 36.3 years male: 35.5 years female: 37.2 years (2013 est.) |
Population growth rate: | 0.46% (2013 est.) |
Birth rate: | 12.25 births/1,000 population (2013 est.) |
Death rate: | 7.31 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.) |
Net migration rate: | -0.33 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.) |
Urbanization: | urban population: 50.6% of total population (2011) rate of urbanization: 2.85% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) |
Major urban areas - population: | Shanghai 16.575 million; BEIJING (capital) 15.594 million; Chongqing 9.401 million; Shenzhen 9.005 million; Guangzhou 8.884 million (2011) |
Sex ratio: | at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.17 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.11 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.92 male(s)/female total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2013 est.) |
Maternal mortality rate: | 37 deaths/100,000 live births (2010) |
Infant mortality rate: | total: 15.2 deaths/1,000 live births male: 15.16 deaths/1,000 live births female: 15.25 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.) |
Life expectancy at birth: | total population: 74.99 years male: 72.96 years female: 77.27 years (2013 est.) |
Total fertility rate: | 1.55 children born/woman (2013 est.) |
Contraceptive prevalence rate: | 84.6% (2006) |
Health expenditures: | 5.1% of GDP (2010) |
Physicians density: | 1.42 physicians/1,000 population (2009) |
Hospital bed density: | 4.2 beds/1,000 population (2009) |
Drinking water source: | improved: urban: 98% of population rural: 85% of population total: 91% of population unimproved: urban: 2% of population rural: 15% of population total: 9% of population (2010 est.) |
Sanitation facility access: | improved: urban: 74% of population rural: 56% of population total: 64% of population unimproved: urban: 26% of population rural: 44% of population total: 36% of population (2010 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: | 0.1% (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: | 740,000 (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - deaths: | 26,000 (2009 est.) |
Obesity - adult prevalence rate: | 5.7% (2008) |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: | 3.4% (2010) |
Education expenditures: | NA |
Literacy: | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 95.1% male: 97.5% female: 92.7% (2010 est.) |
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): | total: 12 years male: 12 years female: 12 years (2011) |
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Government | |
Country name: | conventional long form: People's Republic of China conventional short form: China local long form: Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo local short form: Zhongguo abbreviation: PRC |
Government type: | Communist state |
Capital: | name: Beijing geographic coordinates: 39 55 N, 116 23 E time difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) note: despite its size, all of China falls within one time zone; many people in Xinjiang Province observe an unofficial "Xinjiang time zone" of UTC+6, two hours behind Beijing |
Administrative divisions: | 23 provinces (sheng, singular and plural), 5 autonomous regions (zizhiqu, singular and plural), and 4 municipalities (shi, singular and plural) provinces: Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang; (see note on Taiwan) autonomous regions: Guangxi, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), Ningxia, Xinjiang Uygur, Xizang (Tibet) municipalities: Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin note: China considers Taiwan its 23rd province; see separate entries for the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau |
Independence: | 1 October 1949 (People's Republic of China established); notable earlier dates: 221 B.C. (unification under the Qin Dynasty); 1 January 1912 (Qing Dynasty replaced by the Republic of China) |
National holiday: | Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 1 October (1949) |
Constitution: | most recent promulgation 4 December 1982; amended several times |
Legal system: | civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; note - criminal procedure law revised in early 2012 |
Suffrage: | 18 years of age; universal |
Executive branch: | chief of state: President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013); Vice President LI Yuanchao (since 14 March 2013) head of government: Premier LI Keqiang (since 16 March 2013); Executive Vice Premier ZHANG Gaoli (since 16 March 2013), Vice Premier LIU Yandong (since 16 March 2013), Vice Premier MA Kai (since 16 March 2013), and Vice Premier WANG Yang (since 16 March 2013) cabinet: State Council appointed by National People's Congress (For more information visit the World Leaders website ) elections: president and vice president elected by National People's Congress for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); elections last held on 5-17 March 2013 (next to be held in March 2018); premier nominated by president, confirmed by National People's Congress election results: XI Jinping elected president by National People's Congress with a total of 2,952 votes; LI Yuanchao elected vice president with a total of 2,940 votes |
Legislative branch: | unicameral National People's Congress or Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui (2,987 seats; members elected by municipal, regional, and provincial people's congresses, and People's Liberation Army to serve five-year terms) elections: last held in December 2007-February 2008 (next to be held in late 2012 to early 2013) election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - 2,987 note: in practice, only members of the CCP, its eight allied parties, and CCP-approved independent candidates are elected |
Judicial branch: | highest court(s): Supreme People's Court (consists of over 340 judges including the chief justice, 13 grand justices organized into a civil committee and tribunals for civil, economic, administrative, complaint and appeal, and communication and transportation cases) note - in October 2012, China issued a white paper on planned judicial reform judge selection and term of office: chief justice appointed by the People's National Congress; term limited to two consecutive 5-year terms; other justices and judges nominated by the chief justice and appointed by the Standing Committee of the People's National Congress; term of other justices and judges NA subordinate courts: Higher People's Courts; Intermediate People's Courts; District and County People's Courts; Autonomous Region People's Courts; Special People's Courts for military, maritime, transportation, and forestry issues |
Political parties and leaders: | Chinese Communist Party or CCP [XI Jinping] eight nominally independent small parties ultimately controlled by the CCP |
Political pressure groups and leaders: | no substantial political opposition groups exist |
International organization participation: | ADB, AfDB (nonregional member), APEC, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, CDB, CICA, EAS, FAO, FATF, G-20, G-24 (observer), G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC (observer), SCO, SICA (observer), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNSC (permanent), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC |
National symbol(s): | dragon |
National anthem: | name: "Yiyongjun Jinxingqu" (The March of the Volunteers) lyrics/music: TIAN Han/NIE Er note: adopted 1949; the anthem, though banned during the Cultural Revolution, is more commonly known as "Zhongguo Guoge" (Chinese National Song); it was originally the theme song to the 1935 Chinese movie, "Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm" |
Diplomatic representation in the US: | chief of mission: Ambassador CUI Tiankai chancery: 3505 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008 telephone: [1] (202) 495-2266 FAX: [1] (202) 495-2138 consulate(s) general: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco |
Diplomatic representation from the US: | chief of mission: Ambassador Gary LOCKE embassy: 55 An Jia Lou Lu, 100600 Beijing mailing address: PSC 461, Box 50, FPO AP 96521-0002 telephone: [86] (10) 8531-3000 FAX: [86] (10) 8531-3300 consulate(s) general: Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, Wuhan |
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Economy | |
Since the late 1970s China has moved from a closed, centrally planned system to a more market-oriented one that plays a major global role - in 2010 China became the world's largest exporter. Reforms began with the phasing out of collectivized agriculture, and expanded to include the gradual liberalization of prices, fiscal decentralization, increased autonomy for state enterprises, creation of a diversified banking system, development of stock markets, rapid growth of the private sector, and opening to foreign trade and investment. China has implemented reforms in a gradualist fashion. In recent years, China has renewed its support for state-owned enterprises in sectors it considers important to "economic security," explicitly looking to foster globally competitive national champions. After keeping its currency tightly linked to the US dollar for years, in July 2005 China revalued its currency by 2.1% against the US dollar and moved to an exchange rate system that references a basket of currencies. From mid 2005 to late 2008 cumulative appreciation of the renminbi against the US dollar was more than 20%, but the exchange rate remained virtually pegged to the dollar from the onset of the global financial crisis until June 2010, when Beijing allowed resumption of a gradual appreciation. The restructuring of the economy and resulting efficiency gains have contributed to a more than tenfold increase in GDP since 1978. Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis that adjusts for price differences, China in 2012 stood as the second-largest economy in the world after the US, having surpassed Japan in 2001. The dollar values of China's agricultural and industrial output each exceed those of the US; China is second to the US in the value of services it produces. Still, per capita income is below the world average. The Chinese government faces numerous economic challenges, including: (a) reducing its high domestic savings rate and correspondingly low domestic demand; (b) sustaining adequate job growth for tens of millions of migrants and new entrants to the work force; (c) reducing corruption and other economic crimes; and (d) containing environmental damage and social strife related to the economy's rapid transformation. Economic development has progressed further in coastal provinces than in the interior, and by 2011 more than 250 million migrant workers and their dependents had relocated to urban areas to find work. One consequence of population control policy is that China is now one of the most rapidly aging countries in the world. Deterioration in the environment - notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table, especially in the North - is another long-term problem. China continues to lose arable land because of erosion and economic development. The Chinese government is seeking to add energy production capacity from sources other than coal and oil, focusing on nuclear and alternative energy development. In 2010-11, China faced high inflation resulting largely from its credit-fueled stimulus program. Some tightening measures appear to have controlled inflation, but GDP growth consequently slowed to under 8% for 2012. An economic slowdown in Europe contributed to China's, and is expected to further drag Chinese growth in 2013. Debt overhang from the stimulus program, particularly among local governments, and a property price bubble challenge policy makers currently. The government's 12th Five-Year Plan, adopted in March 2011, emphasizes continued economic reforms and the need to increase domestic consumption in order to make the economy less dependent on exports in the future. However, China has made only marginal progress toward these rebalancing goals. | |
GDP (purchasing power parity): | GDP (purchasing power parity): $12.61 trillion (2012 est.) $11.7 trillion (2011 est.) $10.7 trillion (2010 est.) note: data are in 2012 US dollars |
GDP (official exchange rate): | GDP (official exchange rate): $8.227 trillion note: because China's exchange rate is determine by fiat, rather than by market forces, the official exchange rate measure of GDP is not an accurate measure of China's output; GDP at the official exchange rate substantially understates the actual level of China's output vis-a-vis the rest of the world; in China's situation, GDP at purchasing power parity provides the best measure for comparing output across countries (2012 est.) |
GDP - real growth rate: | 7.8% (2012 est.) 9.3% (2011 est.) 10.4% (2010 est.) |
GDP - per capita (PPP): | GDP - per capita (PPP): $9,300 (2012 est.) $8,700 (2011 est.) $8,000 (2010 est.) note: data are in 2012 US dollars |
Gross national saving: | 50.4% of GDP (2012 est.) 51.1% of GDP (2011 est.) 52.1% of GDP (2010 est.) |
GDP - composition, by end use: | household consumption: 35.7% government consumption: 13.5% investment in fixed capital: 46.1% investment in inventories: 2% exports of goods and services: 26.9% imports of goods and services: -24.1% (2012 est.) |
GDP - composition, by sector of origin: | household consumption: 35.7% government consumption: 13.5% investment in fixed capital: 46.1% investment in inventories: 2% exports of goods and services: 26.9% imports of goods and services: -24.1% (2012 est.) |
Agriculture - products: | world leader in gross value of agricultural output; rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish |
Industries: | world leader in gross value of industrial output; mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites |
Industrial production growth rate: | 8.1% (2012 est.) |
Labor force: | 798.5 million note: by the end of 2012, China's population at working age (15-64 years) was 1.0040 billion |
Labor force - by occupation: | agriculture: 34.8% industry: 29.5% services: 35.7% (2011 est.) |
Unemployment rate: | 6.5% (2012 est.) 6.5% (2011 est.) note: registered urban unemployment, which excludes private enterprises and migrants, was 4.1% in 2012 |
Population below poverty line: | 13.4% note: in 2011, China set a new poverty line at RMB 2300 (approximately US $3,630) (2011) |
Household income or consumption by percentage share: | lowest 10%: 3.5% highest 10%: 15% note: data are for urban households only (2008) |
Distribution of family income - Gini index: | 47.4 (2012) 48.4 (2007) |
Budget: | revenues: $1.857 trillion expenditures: $1.992 trillion (2012 est.) |
Taxes and other revenues: | 22.6% of GDP (2012 est.) |
Public debt: | 31.7% of GDP (2012 est.) 38.5% of GDP (2011) note: official data; data cover both central government debt and local government debt, which China's National Audit Office estimated at RMB 10.72 trillion (approximately US$1.66 trillion) in 2011; data exclude policy bank bonds, Ministry of Railway debt, China Asset Management Company debt, and non-performing loans |
Fiscal year: | calendar year |
Inflation rate (consumer prices): | Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.6% (2012 est.) 5.5% (2011 est.) |
Current account balance: | $213.8 billion (2012 est.) $201.7 billion (2011 est.) |
Exports: | $2.057 trillion (2012 est.) $1.812 trillion (2011 est.) |
Exports - commodities: | electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, radio telephone handsets, textiles, integrated circuits |
Exports - partners: | US 17.2%, Hong Kong 15.8%, Japan 7.4%, South Korea 4.3% (2012) |
Imports: | $1.735 trillion (2012 est.) $1.57 trillion (2011 est.) |
Imports - commodities: | electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral fuels, optical and medical equipment, metal ores, motor vehicles |
Imports - partners: | Japan 9.8%, South Korea 9.2%, US 7.1%, Germany 5.1%, Australia 4.3% (2012) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: | $3.341 trillion (31 December 2012 est.) $3.213 trillion (31 December 2011 est.) |
Debt - external: | $770.8 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $685.4 billion (31 December 2011 est.) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: | $1.344 trillion (31 December 2012 est.) $1.232 trillion (31 December 2011 est.) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: | $502 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $424.8 billion (31 December 2011 est.) |
Market value of publicly traded shares: | $3.665 trillion (31 December 2012 est.) $3.408 trillion (31 December 2011) $4.763 trillion (31 December 2010 est.) |
Exchange rates: | Renminbi yuan (RMB) per US dollar - 6.3123 (2012 est.) 6.4615 (2011 est.) 6.7703 (2010 est.) 6.8314 (2009) 6.9385 (2008) |
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Energy | |
Electricity - production: | 4.94 trillion kWh (2012) country comparison to the world: 1 |
Electricity - consumption: | 4.693 trillion kWh (2011) |
Electricity - exports: | 17.65 billion kWh (2012) |
Electricity - imports: | 6.874 billion kWh (2012) |
Electricity - installed generating capacity: | 1.146 billion kW (2012 est.) |
Electricity - from fossil fuels: | 69.5% of total installed capacity (2012 est.) |
Electricity - from nuclear fuels: | 1.1% of total installed capacity (2012 est.) |
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: | 21.8% of total installed capacity (2012 est.) |
Electricity - from other renewable sources: | 7.6% of total installed capacity (2012 est.) |
Crude oil - production: | 4.15 million bbl/day (2012 est.) |
Crude oil - exports: | 48,700 bbl/day (2012 est.) |
Crude oil - imports: | 5.422 million bbl/day (2012 est.) |
Crude oil - proved reserves: | 14.8 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.) |
Refined petroleum products - production: | 8.992 million bbl/day (2011 est.) |
Refined petroleum products - consumption: | 9.79 million bbl/day (2011 est.) |
Refined petroleum products - exports: | 623,000 bbl/day (2011 est.) |
Refined petroleum products - imports: | 1.571 million bbl/day (2011 est.) |
Natural gas - production: | 107.7 billion cu m (2011 est.) |
Natural gas - consumption: | 147.1 billion cu m (2011 est.) |
Natural gas - exports: | 3.21 billion cu m (2011 est.) |
Natural gas - imports: | 42.5 billion cu m (2012 est.) |
Natural gas - proved reserves: | 3.2 trillion cu m (1 January 2012 est.) |
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: | 8.321 billion Mt (2010 est.) |
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Communications | |
Telephones in use: | 285.115 million (2011) country comparison to the world: 1 |
Cellular Phones in use: | 986.253 million (2011) |
Telephone system: | general assessment: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns; China continues to develop its telecommunications infrastructure; China in the summer of 2008 began a major restructuring of its telecommunications industry, resulting in the consolidation of its six telecom service operators to three, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, each providing both fixed-line and mobile services domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; mobile-cellular subscribership is increasing rapidly; the number of Internet users exceeded 564 million by the end of 2012; a domestic satellite system with several earth stations is in place international: country code - 86; a number of submarine cables provide connectivity to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US; satellite earth stations - 7 (5 Intelsat - 4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean; 1 Intersputnik - Indian Ocean region; and 1 Inmarsat - Pacific and Indian Ocean regions) (2012) |
Broadcast media: | all broadcast media are owned by, or affiliated with, the Communist Party of China or a government agency; no privately owned TV or radio stations; state-run Chinese Central TV, provincial, and municipal stations offer more than 2,000 channels; the Central Propaganda Department lists subjects that are off limits to domestic broadcast media with the government maintaining authority to approve all programming; foreign-made TV programs must be approved prior to broadcast |
Internet country code: | .cn |
Internet hosts: | 20.602 million (2012) |
Internet users: | 389 million (2009) |
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Transportation | |
Airports: | 507 (2013) country comparison to the world: 14 |
Airports (paved runways): | total 463 over 3,047 m: 71 2,438 to 3,047 m: 158 1,524 to 2,437 m: 123 914 to 1,523 m: 25 under 914 m: 86 (2013) |
Airports (unpaved runways): | total 44 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 914 to 1,523 m: 9 under 914 m: 18 (2013) |
Heliports: | 47 (2013) |
Pipelines: | condensate 9 km; gas 48,502 km; oil 23,072 km; oil/gas/water 31 km; refined products 15,298 km; water 9 km (2013) |
Railways: | total 86,000 km standard gauge: 86,000 km 1.435-m gauge (36,000 km electrified) (2008) |
Roadways: | total 4,106,387 km paved: 3,453,890 km (includes 84,946 km of expressways) unpaved: 652,497 km (2011) |
Waterways: | 110,000 km (navigable waterways) (2011) |
Merchant marine: | total 2,030 by type: barge carrier 7, bulk carrier 621, cargo 566, carrier 10, chemical tanker 140, container 206, liquefied gas 60, passenger 9, passenger/cargo 81, petroleum tanker 264, refrigerated cargo 33, roll on/roll off 8, specialized tanker 2, vehicle carrier 23 foreign-owned: 22 (Hong Kong 18, Indonesia 2, Japan 2) registered in other countries: 1,559 (Bangladesh 1, Belize 61, Cambodia 177, Comoros 1, Cyprus 6, Georgia 10, Honduras 2, Hong Kong 500, India 1, Indonesia 1, Kiribati 26, Liberia 4, Malta 6, Marshall Islands 14, North Korea 3, Panama 534, Philippines 4, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 65, Sao Tome and Principe 1, Sierra Leone 19, Singapore 29, South Korea 6, Thailand 1, Togo 1, Tuvalu 4, UK 7, Vanuatu 1, unknown 73) (2010) |
Ports and terminals: | major seaport(s): Dalian, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin river port(s): Guangzhou (Pearl) container port(s): Dalian (6,400,300), Guangzhou (14,260,400), Ningbo (14,719,200), Qingdao (13,020,100), Shanghai (31,739,000), Shenzhen (22,570,800), Tianjin (11,587,600)(2011) |
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Military | |
Military branches: | People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces, Navy (PLAN; includes marines and naval aviation), Air Force (Zhongguo Renmin Jiefangjun Kongjun, PLAAF; includes Airborne Forces), and Second Artillery Corps (strategic missile force); People's Armed Police (Renmin Wuzhuang Jingcha Budui, PAP); PLA Reserve Force (2012) |
Military service age and obligation: | 18-24 years of age for selective compulsory military service, with a 2-year service obligation; no minimum age for voluntary service (all officers are volunteers); 18-19 years of age for women high school graduates who meet requirements for specific military jobs; a recent military decision allows women in combat roles; the first class of women warship commanders was in 2011 (2012) |
Manpower available for military service: | males age 16-49: 385,821,101 females age 16-49: 363,789,674 (2010 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service: | males age 16-49: 318,265,016 females age 16-49: 300,323,611 (2010 est.) |
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually: | male: 10,406,544 female: 9,131,990 (2010 est.) |
Military expenditures: | 2.6% of GDP (2012) |
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Transnational Issues | |
Disputes - International: | continuing talks and confidence-building measures work toward reducing tensions over Kashmir that nonetheless remains militarized with portions under the de facto administration of China (Aksai Chin), India (Jammu and Kashmir), and Pakistan (Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas); India does not recognize Pakistan's ceding historic Kashmir lands to China in 1964; China and India continue their security and foreign policy dialogue started in 2005 related to the dispute over most of their rugged, militarized boundary, regional nuclear proliferation, and other matters; China claims most of India's Arunachal Pradesh to the base of the Himalayas; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a common boundary alignment to resolve territorial disputes arising from substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lie in Bhutan's northwest and along the Chumbi salient; Burmese forces attempting to dig in to the largely autonomous Shan State to rout local militias tied to the drug trade, prompts local residents to periodically flee into neighboring Yunnan Province in China; Chinese maps show an international boundary symbol off the coasts of the littoral states of the South China Seas, where China has interrupted Vietnamese hydrocarbon exploration; China asserts sovereignty over Scarborough Reef along with the Philippines and Taiwan, and over the Spratly Islands together with Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Brunei; the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea eased tensions in the Spratlys but is not the legally binding code of conduct sought by some parties; Vietnam and China continue to expand construction of facilities in the Spratlys and in March 2005, the national oil companies of China, the Philippines, and Vietnam signed a joint accord on marine seismic activities in the Spratly Islands; China occupies some of the Paracel Islands also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan; China and Taiwan continue to reject both Japan's claims to the uninhabited islands of Senkaku-shoto (Diaoyu Tai) and Japan's unilaterally declared equidistance line in the East China Sea, the site of intensive hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation; certain islands in the Yalu and Tumen rivers are in dispute with North Korea; North Korea and China seek to stem illegal migration to China by North Koreans, fleeing privations and oppression, by building a fence along portions of the border and imprisoning North Koreans deported by China; China and Russia have demarcated the once disputed islands at the Amur and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River in accordance with their 2004 Agreement; China and Tajikistan have begun demarcating the revised boundary agreed to in the delimitation of 2002; the decade-long demarcation of the China-Vietnam land boundary was completed in 2009; citing environmental, cultural, and social concerns, China has reconsidered construction of 13 dams on the Salween River, but energy-starved Burma, with backing from Thailand, remains intent on building five hydro-electric dams downstream despite regional and international protests; Chinese and Hong Kong authorities met in March 2008 to resolve ownership and use of lands recovered in Shenzhen River channelization, including 96-hectare Lok Ma Chau Loop; Hong Kong developing plans to reduce 2,000 out of 2,800 hectares of its restricted Closed Area by 2010 |
Refugees and internally displaced persons: | refugees (country of origin): 300,897 (Vietnam); estimated 30,000-50,000 (North Korea) (2012) IDPs: 90,000 (2010) |
Illicit drugs: | major transshipment point for heroin produced in the Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia; growing domestic consumption of synthetic drugs, and heroin from Southeast and Southwest Asia; source country for methamphetamine and heroin chemical precursors, despite new regulations on its large chemical industry (2008) |
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The White House scrambled Friday to explain newly released email excerpts that show a top State Department official pushing to water down the intelligence community's initial story-line on the Benghazi attack, as Republicans sharply challenged the administration's honesty.
With new details emerging in the Benghazi-gate controversy, the White House held a background discussion with more than a dozen news organizations. Afterward, Press Secretary Jay Carney weathered a barrage of questions from the media during an at-times awkward White House briefing -- where he tried to defend the truthfulness of his and other officials' prior claims that the initial talking points on the attack reflected the best intelligence assessment of the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Though this is not new, it appears that this term will stick since the leading news organization in the US has decided to run with it...
Seems like some very stupid folks is Washington have light a fire under T.E.A. folks with the IRS scandal.
Sounds like O-bozo is going to have throw a number of people under the bus...
Sad, isn't it? Fox has to search FR for vocabulary words.
It's tough when your native environment is 14% Arabic.
The bad news is: apparently something is going to happen with the arms-running Benghazi is/was all about.
No other reason for the WH to stop digging the hole and looking for a way out. It's not like anybody in the admin cares about their reputations, or souls, for that matter.
That, or Jarrett has been knocked off the chess board and gravity is doing its thing.
So. He's going to start burning out structures in this country, too. Prepare to be Benghazied.
I thought we agreed on another thread today to replace the "gate" suffix with "ghazi"?! So it's Benghazighazi from now on!
It seems to have traction.
10% of the Obama voters; those with some intellect at least are seeing some cognitive dissonance...
Brace for impact?
MSM has to lead or nothing doing. Then, we'd need a John Dean type insider traitor. The Negro lawyeresses around Obamugabe Jarrett, Mills. Rice, ain't likely to do it.
"The Saudi, Moslem Brotherhood
and al Qaeda monies have cleared to your accounts.
They want you to green light them
to remove the intermediary Ambassador,
and take down the Seal Team."
Yep. He was horrible today.
Baghdad Bob
Benghazi Jay
I heard Geraldo use it last fall on Fox, not long after it happened. He made a deal out of the phrase, as if no one else would have thought of it.
Jay Carney was twisting around like rusty old barbed wire wrapped around the rear axle...
The more he drove -- the worse it tangled...
When he tried to stop and get the wire-cutters...
It bit him.... pretty good one too....
May I be the first to anticipate his impending resignation...
...rats/sinking ship.... etc...
I put both keywords in this thread: benghazi and benghazigate
Freerepublic has a standard for some things: banglist for guns, prolife for abortion, prolife, euthanasia, etc...
Maybe as Freerepublic has a Copyright keyword for how to post, maybe there should be a keywords thread for the keywords to use...
I just keep thinking about Stevens and the others, waiting ..waiting....hoping to be rescued and probably assuming that they would be...after they sent out the SOS "WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, Greg".
What their last minutes of life must have been like.
Fear, abandonment, ...in Stevens case, brutal rape and torture. By then, he knew how it would end.
America: the greatest super power in the world and we can't keep our foreign correpondents, military, ambassador safe....
and all because of the narcissistic, heartless decision by this corrupt regime that their political futures/images trumped all.
These are the people we ELECTED to act in the name of a civil and free society?
It should INFURIATE all of us and that anger serve as a catalyst to never, ever let this story die until some sort of retribution be given so that they will not have died in vain,.
MSM be damned. We have to find another way to uncover truth.
This Obama administration is beyond despicable..every last one of 'em is a crook and a liar.
TEA Party patriots are pissed off right now, thank goodness. The eye of the sleeping tiger just opened ...
I feel a stirring in my soul that has been lying dormant since Nov. 4.
I don't blame you, but I was referring to a real thread a few hours ago that proposed such a thing. A joke of sorts, I guess.
So what do you think's up with this sudden tits-up by the Admin? Did Jarrett get tossed o'er board? Or is something about to be up?
People just need to stay focused and recruit more people...
What was that saying of Ben Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately.
TEA Pary, conservatives and Patriots need to band together at this time...
Nothing can happen on this no matter what truth is uncovered. The American people aren't seeking truth and haven't for many years now.
If the LSM had any pride, they'd boycott Carney until Zer0 was made available daily.
And I even thought of pinging Jim Robinson to get him involved.
It would be part of: Please be nice to our database by using consistent keywords...
Yes, the keywords feature is mostly useless right now and completely out of control. I support your effort.
No end result of this will satisfy me, short of Obama and Clinton both being tried and found guilty of treason and both going to jail.
Remember that Watergate (the scandal, not the break in) would now have happened without Catherine Graham's (owner of the Washing Compost) visceral hatred of Nixon. It was her play from the start.
<...."The American people arent seeking truth and havent for many years now"....>
Yes, in most cases this is true...but they enjoy watching the "stage play" as they would a soap opera....they want to "see" the show.
I don't think Jarrett is going anywhere...she knows where all the bodies are buried. Obama will go before Jarrett does.....lol. I predict a full court media press over the weekend to obfuscate,smear and minimize all whistleblowers and charges. They all really think they are going to get away with the worse Abuse Of Power this country has ever known.
The lib trolls and sock puppets are out in force all over comment sections,twitter,Facebook, etc.
I am concerned that the broader points are getting lost in the focus on talking points though....we know they lied. The broader points in my opinion are where was Obama and what were his orders?! I want to see his written orders for that night. Were we running guns to Syria? Did Obama watch those men die and do nothing? Did we have Islamist moles in the WH,CIA or military undermining and sabotaging our efforts?
Keep an eye on McCain. I predicted long ago that if Obama was gun running..McCain's fingerprints will be on it too. He could ultimately be a huge roadblock to getting the real truth.
Just some random thoughts.
What say you?
In the end the only people going to jail over this are two low level IRS agents
Meant to add the State Department to my list of agencies where we should look for Islamist moles too.
The Taliban is inside the building!
Perhaps, though, they're going to have a hard time saying, admitting, they don't care that the embassy staff was abandoned in that situation, you know, because it didn't interfere with their getting their stuff.
What say you?
The minute this broke, I happened to have 2 days off to watch it and I truly believe zero's muz bros have threatened him with use of such. Nothing else explains today's headlines.
I think 'what difference does it make' was Thighness being honest as she can in that regard.
It's been easy, effortless for the WH to keep the SRM ignoring this, why is the dam breaking today? On a Friday?
I think its because they expect something to happen that will cause for even independent voters to call for their heads on pikes.
Ollie spoke up today on this.... I consider him the best source on these things.
What did Ollie say?
MM, it looks like the avalanche is starting in truth.
Oliver North: Cover Up
Townhall.com ^ | May 10, 2013 | Oliver North
Clip and save this column. Herein are some important events, names, places facts your children and grandchildren will need to know about these perilous times:........
Marine Uncle said it the right way:
Why the 180 today out of the WH? From stonewalling to talking?
That is interesting. i love ollie! I will look for a link to his thoughts on the matter.
I just don't see Obama caring that much if AQ uses those weapons on our country or any military installation though. I know that sounds harsh, but that man is working for them all over the ME to install their caliphate it would appear.
#40, Ollie.
The fact is, there IS nothing POSHITUS loves.
HE could care less about any fallout, but the DNC RATS are trying to recover their shit, and seeing Hillary possibly knocked out of 2016 by this are obviously reacting today.
DNC may be realizing that obama's muslim loyalties run deeper than his communist/progressive loyalties. The joke may be on them. These two rabidly evil groups have worked so well together. Oh may they begin to turn on each other. I just pray they don't finish off destroying America in the process of their power struggle with each other.
I had a vanity in Chat today that a couple of us had some fun with:
So you think the media will turn on Obama to save Hillary?
I know everyone is concerned about Hillary running, but I just don't fear her winning that much. I don't even know that the dem party bosses really want her, but I could be wrong. She was already damaged goods IMHO by working in Obamas administration and sucking so bad at everything she touched.
Background "discussion", huh?
More like an offer they couldn't refuse.
Boxlunch nailed it:
DNC may be realizing that obamas muslim loyalties run deeper than his communist/progressive loyalties. The joke may be on them.
(and we both said we were taking off politics for the weekend! :)
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Undeterred, the team set off up the wall, using A4 aid on blank sections and free climbing easier terrain for the first 600 feet. "After thinking we were on a new line and then finding a bolt many times over we used our 'phone a friend card,'" says Berry. Allfrey's girlfriend researched the wall from home and then informed the team that they were actually 600 feet up Steve Quinlan's 1980 solo testpiece Sendero Luminoso (VI 5.10 A4). "When we heard this we were all bummed, but the free climbing was so good we were very happy to continue up the line," says Berry. The team then went to work figuring out the best way to free climb the previously aided pitches of the route. "We bolted a two pitch variation to the aid line on the 3rd and 4th pitch," Berry explains. "Dave lead the 3rd pitch at 5.12d and I lead the 4th pitch at 5.12c." After another corner pitch of 5.11c, an A3 seam that Berry describes as "breath taking" arced upwards. Free climbing this "A3 beauty" as the team dubbed the pitch, became the crux of the route.
In an e-mail to Rock and Ice, Berry describes this pitch as "very crimpy and technical climbing that required insane amounts of body tention and using horrible feet." Fixing lines from their portaledge to this crux pitch, he and Earle spent several days jugging up and then trying to decipher the cryptic crack. While resting, the climbers spent time "on the portaledge blasting music and trying to stay warm," says Berry. The erratic weather of the Wind Rivers created difficult climbing conditions, with sporadic thunderstorms slowing progress on the crux pitch. However, Berry eventually seized a brief weather window and managed to link the pitch, suggesting a grade of 5.14a. "Sending this pitch gave me more satisfaction than any pitch I have done before," says Berry. "After completing the pitch I also knew we would have a team send which felt terrific!" But the difficulties weren't over yet. The very next pitch was a seam that was difficult to protect. Earle took over the lead, free climbing the seam at 5.13a, using equalized bird beaks as protection. "They were good beaks, but being beaks it warrants an R rating," says Berry.
After the 5.13a pitch, the team traversed into Shady Lady (VI 5.11 A4, Bradshaw-Dockery, 1978), an already existing free route located on the right side of Mt. Hooker's north face. The team freed the remaining climbing to the summit at 5.12 but "got way off route," says Berry. "We did still free it though, but for future ascents it would be more pleasant to follow the route."
The team also returned to finish aiding Sendero Luminoso, which Berry suspects is a second ascent of the route. "I would be shocked if someone else had been up there with the state of the rusted out bolts," he says. "We were pretty sure that someone would have replaced them if they were up there since hauling off them was out of the question." Berry also mentions that the top pitches of Luminoso were definitely free climbable. "The top would not be more difficult than what we had already climbed, but it would have required more bolting and we did not have any time left," he says. Regardless, the team's new free-ascent link-up is now one of the most difficult alpine multi-pitch routes in North America. "We are going back next year to do it in a continuous ascent," says Berry.


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A ludicrous script is usually the hurdle you find yourself trying to jump in an effort to enjoy an action-heavy science fiction in the character of Riddick. Surprisingly, it isn't the story that holds Vin Diesel's third Richard Riddick movie back, but what launches it forward through a dust cloud of other shortcomings and malfeasances. Kicking off with a wordless first act involving the lone criminal's determination to survive on a wasteland planet and progressing very gradually toward and through an intergalactic bounty hunter team's stakeout for the wanted man, we find ourselves adhering reluctantly to the slow-burning but densely packed drama. It'll get you. The claustrophic, death-on-the-horizon mission facing the band of lowlifes hunting down Riddick - and the intercepting troupe of more ostensibly ''righteous'' law enforcement officials (there's a guy who speaks calmly, a woman, and a kid who prays, so you know they're the good ones) - coughs up pissing contests, gender politics, and strategy debates in the valley of meaty sociological sci-fi like classic Star Trek episodes. Meanwhile, Diesel is hiding out in the adjacent caves, plotting his next move.
After a uniquely primal introductory chapter, wherein we're engrossed by the vivid hell that is ''Not Furya'' (Riddick's affectionate name for the world within which he is prisoner) in the same way that we connect to the first chapter of 2001: A Space Odyssey, we're relieved to welcome in some new characters (and, of course, actual dialogue). While Diesel can muster charisma taunting Jordi Mollà's bounty hunter creep Santana or Matt Nable's stoic (with a breaking point) officer Johns, he's not the sort of actor who can carry long stretches of wordless, pensive survival on his own. Luckily, he gets a dog pretty early on, so that picks things up a bit.
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How many CPU cores do you need for games? These days, it's virtually impossible to buy a desktop CPU with fewer than two cores. Dual-core CPUs have become the norm, and quad-core systems... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Gaming |
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2.7GHz Phenom II X6 said to be in the works Longing for a quicker member of AMD's Phenom II X6 family? Don't hold your breath, says Fudzilla—the existing Phenom II X6 1090T will reportedly... Type: News story Tags: CPUs |
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NASA invites gamers to Moonbase Alpha The way things are going, NASA sending a man back to the Moon doesn't look too likely, at least in the near term. The... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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Thursday Shortbread Eight is Enough DigiTimes reports HDD prices dropping since end of June Guru3D, Hardware Heaven, Legit Reviews, OC3D, PC Perspective,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread |
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Report: Don't hold your breath for Intel chipsets with USB 3.0 in 2011 Last October, we learned via an unofficial report that Intel wouldn't add native USB 3.0 support to its chipsets until 2011. According to the... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets |
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Poll: How powerful is your PSU? The range of PSU wattages available today is truly staggering. At Newegg alone, the scale starts at 145W and goes all the way up... Poll Question: • What's the wattage rating of your primary desktop's PSU? Type: News story Tags: Power |
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New 11.6-inch ultraportable offers Radeon graphics, dual-core Athlon Neo AMD was never keen on netbooks, but the company's mobile CPUs are becoming increasingly common in budget ultraportable notebooks. HP's 11.6" Pavilion dm1z... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing |
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Single-core Athlon II Neo gets some love from Gateway You know that $550, AMD-powered Acer ultraportable we talked about last month? Acer subsidiary Gateway has now announced a similar-looking laptop that boasts... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing |
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First Firefox 4 beta arrives with tabs on top Between Chrome, Opera, and this latest pre-release version of Firefox, web browsers are starting to look more alike than ever. Mozilla put up the... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software |
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National Macaroni Day Shortbread The Magnificent Seven InfoWorld has 10 reasons why the PC is here to stay TweakTown: Has ATX run its course? Firefox 4 Beta 1:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread |
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PhysX hobbled on the CPU by x87 code Nvidia has long promoted its PhysX game physics middleware as an example of a computing problem that benefits greatly from GPU acceleration, and a number... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Gaming |
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Today's solid-state drives: The value perspective Are SSDs worth the extra scratch versus hard drives? Which one is the best value? Our scatter plots have returned to tackle the Type: Feature article Tags: Storage |
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BFG Tech low on power, dropping PSU lineup? Citing a lack of profitability, BFG Tech surprisingly exited the graphics card market back in May. At the time, company chairman John Slevin... Type: News story Tags: Power |
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Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day Shortbread Eight is Enough Fudzilla reports Apple facing EU antitrust probe C|Net reports PCs beat Apple in summer price wars TC Magazine reports Bluetooth 4.0... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread |
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Aorus gives its GTX 1070 the triple-fan treatment | 1 |