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 * China** has the longest combined land border in the world, measuring 22,117 km (13,743 mi) from the mouth of the Yalu River to the Gulf of Tonkin. China borders 14 nations, more than any other country except Russia, which also borders 14. China extends across much of East Asia, bordering Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia; India, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in South Asia; Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia; and Russia, Mongolia, and North Korea in Inner Asia and Northeast Asia. Additionally, China shares maritime boundaries with South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. - [|Wikipedia]

Chengdu Century City International Convention Center, China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/china/chengdu http://www.gochengdu.cn - https://twitter.com/Chengdu_China
 * Spotlight on Chengdu**

Time
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Headlines
[|Iconic buildings: China's Hanging Monastery] [|Working with an Environmental NGO in China - Transitions Abroad] [|China’s biodiversity declines as human demands grow] [|China Living Planet Report - WWF] (PDF) [|Why China's Economy is OK—but China's Government Is Not] - [|@cshirky] [|@ColumbiaGR] [|Did China's most popular environmental film just vanish into the haze?]

Recommended listening
[|Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Shanghai culture, history and architecture] - Dr Jonathan Hutt unravels the cultural, political and architectural history of Shanghai to explain the historical antagonism between Shanghai and Beijing which created the enigmatic city of Shanghai and also helped shape the China we know today.

[|Confucius - A very Chinese philosopher] - Three of the greatest teachers in history never wrote a book. They were Socrates, Jesus Christ and Confucius. As part of Radio National's China Week, //The Philosopher's Zone// is looking at one of them: Confucius. He was one the most Chinese of thinkers of all time and one of the most influential - perhaps indeed the most influential - of all philosophers.

[|Reading the news from China] - Once closed to the world, China is now in the middle of a media feeding frenzy. A journalist, writer and academic muse about this cultural revolution, punctuated by the sounds of China online and the music of punk and post-punk Beijing.

Wiki
Beijing Hong Kong Macau

Tourism Portals
[|China National Tourist Office] [|China National Tourism Association (CNTA)]

Government
http://english.gov.cn http://english.gov.cn/services/2016/12/05/content_281475508526932.htm

Apps
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Twitter
[|@WCSChina] [|@WildChina] [|@XHNews] [|@daphnewelkin5]

Hashtags
[|#ChineseNewYear]

Wikipedia
[|China] [|Feng_Shui] [|Tianjin_Eye] [|Environmental_issues_in_China]

Features
[|A Guide to Life and Study in China: Màn màn lái (Go Slowly)] [|Adventures in Nature - China International Business]

Editing
[|China] [|Hong Kong]

Tourism
[|China National Tourist Office] [|China's Tropical Treasures - Adam Worcester/Transitions Abroad] [|Destination China - Lonely Planet] [|Ecotourism in China - John Studley]

World Museums
[|UNESCO description of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor] [|Terracotta Army - China Travel Guide] [|People's Daily article on the Terracotta Army] [|Terracotta Warrior Replicas] [|Terracotta_Army - Wikipedia]

Environment
[|China Dialogue]

Elsewhere on the Web
http://foreignpolicy.com/channel/tea-leaf-nation - [|@TeaLeafNation] [|Danwei News and Marketing Blog] [|Maps of China] [|1421: The Year China Discovered the World] [|Beijing High-Level Conference on Climate Change: Technology Development and Technology Transfer] [|Ministry of Environmental Protection] [] [] [|Sina Weibo]

CCTV America
http://www.cctv-america.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV_America https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CctvamericaTvnews/posts https://www.facebook.com/CCTVAmerica [|@CCTV_America]

Aviation
[|Air China (USA)]

Changshu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changshu https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g644033-Changshu_Jiangsu-Vacations.html

Khunjerab Pass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khunjerab_Pass http://www.flickr.com/photos/17667265@N07/3021932310 http://www.flickr.com/photos/17667265@N07/3021100735

Great Wall
[|powerhouse museum] [|Great_wall]

Monkey King
[] [|'The Monkey King'] conversation with [|Diane Wolkstein]

Three Gorges Dam
[|Three_Gorges_Dam]

News
[|China International Business] [|China National Radio] [|tealeafnation] [|China dialogue] [] - []

Other Forums
[|China - Thorn Tree]

Flickr
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Flickr Groups
[|Beijing China] [|China, The Middle Country] [|Beautiful China] [|China Images] [|China]

Calendar
[|Chinese Zodiac Signs] [|Chinese_calendar] http://www.chinesenewyears.info - http://www.chinesenewyears.info/chinese-new-year-calendar.php

Huanglong National Park
http://blog.flickr.net/2013/02/04/world-heritage-site-huanglong/ http://www.flickr.com/places/China#huanglong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanglong,_Sichuan

Buzzword Bingo
Asia - Beijing - [|BRIC] - **China** - Chinese New Year - Hong Kong - Macau - Silk - Tea

Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park
[|Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangye_Danxia_National_Geological_Park

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China in the USA
[] [|#ChinaRemixed]

Videos
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