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The Four Big Things (Chinese: 四大件; pinyin: sì dà jiàn), sometimes rendered in English as Four Big Items, is a term originally applied to the four symbols of material success in China from the 1950s until the 1970s, and is now used to refer to any visible marker of newfound affluence. [1] The original list was:
Made in China or Made in PRC is a country of origin label, often in English, affixed to products wholly or partially made in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The label became prominent in the 1990s, when foreign companies based in the United States, Europe, and Asia moved their manufacturing operations to China due to China's low ...
Blast furnace: Although cast iron tools and weapons have been found in China dating from the 5th century BC, the earliest discovered Chinese blast furnaces, which produced pig iron that could be remelted and refined as cast iron in the cupola furnace, date from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, and the vast majority of early blast-furnace sites ...
The list of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad (Chinese: 禁止出境展览文物; pinyin: Jìnzhǐ Chūjìng Zhǎnlǎn Wénwù) comprises a list of antiquities and archaeological artifacts held by various museums and other institutions in the People's Republic of China, which the Chinese government has officially prohibited, since 2003, from being taken abroad for ...
This is a list of established foreign brand vehicles developed and manufactured by automobile companies of China. This type of vehicle refers to a vehicle originally developed and produced by a Chinese manufacturer and branded as a foreign brand, or produced based on the model of a foreign manufacturer's joint venture partner's in China, or a vehicle whose key technology solutions are mostly ...
China been the source of many innovations, scientific discoveries and inventions. Below is an alphabetical list of inventions and discoveries made by Neolithic cultures of China and those of its prehistorical early Bronze Age before the palatial civilization of the Shang dynasty (c. 1650 – c. 1050 BC).
China accepted the convention on 12 December 1985, making its sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] China has 59 World Heritage Sites on the list, ranking second in the world, just below Italy with 60 sites. [4] Of these 59 sites, 40 are listed for their cultural, 15 for their natural, and four sites for both cultural and natural ...
The following is a list of the exports of China. Data is for 2022, in billions of US$ , as reported by the Observatory of Economic Complexity . The top thirty exports are listed.