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The Chinese language is certainly the oldest written language in the world. It has least six thousand years of history. The Chinese written language uses single distinctive symbols, or characters, to represent each word of the vocabulary. The vast majority of characters are written versions of spoken sounds that have meaning. An important large dictionary usually contains 40,000 characters.

To read a newspaper, a person usually should be able to recognize 2,000 to 3,000 characters. The written system has been altered over time due to various interesting historical changes. However, the principles of the language (and the symbols and characters) have remained basically the same.

Many Chinese dialects exist. The written language can be further subdivided into three forms: simplified, traditional, and informal slang or phonetic. There is also a certain form called "pin-yin." This is the Chinese language transcribed using a roman spelling.

China is officially the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country. It had a population of around 1.4 billion in 2019.

China emerged as one of the world's first civilizations, in the so-called fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain.

The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618-907) and Northern Song (960-1127) completed the Four Great Inventions.

China has been characterized as an emerging superpower, mainly because of its large wealthy economy, fast infrastructural development, and powerful massive military.

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中文無疑是世界上最古老的書面語言。它至少有六千年的歷史。中文書面語言使用單個獨特的符號或字符來表示詞彙表中的每個單詞。絕大多數字符是具有含義的書面語音版本。重要的大詞典通常包含40,000個字符。

要閱讀報紙，一個人通常應該能夠識別2,000至3,000個字符。由於各種有趣的歷史變化，書面體系已隨著時間而改變。但是，語言的原理（以及符號和字符）基本保持不變。

存在許多中國方言。書面語言可以進一步細分為三種形式：簡體，傳統和非正式語或語音。還有一種稱為“拼音”的形式。這是使用羅馬字母拼寫的中文。

中國正式是中華人民共和國（PRC）。這是東亞的一個國家。它是世界上人口最多的國家。它在2019年的人口約為14億。

在華北平原所謂的肥沃的黃河盆地中，中國成為世界上最早的文明之一。

火藥和火藥的發明在唐朝（618-907）和北宋（960-1127）完成了四大發明。

中國之所以被定為新興的超級大國，主要是由於其龐大的富裕經濟，快速的基礎設施發展以及強大的大規模軍事力量。