1. You can not see the Great Wall of China from the moon.
2. China is the fourth largest country in the world.
3. China is the most populous country on earth with a population of over 1.3 billion.
4. The national animal of China is Giant Panda
5. The Capital of China is Beijing (Peking)
6. There are 56 races of people in China. 55 of them are minorities.
7. The largest city in China is Shanghai.
8. China has one of the world's oldest people and continuous civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. 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.
9. Historically, China's cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
10. The last Chinese Civil War has resulted in two political entities using the name China:
a) the People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, consisting of mainland China, Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999).
b)Taiwan, has control over the islands of Taiwan, Pescadores, Kinmen, and Matsu.
