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  2. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social media website based in the United States. With over 500 million users, it is one of the world's largest social networks and the fifth-most visited website in the world. [4] [5] Users can share text messages, images, and videos through posts (originally called "tweets"). [6]

  3. Government of China - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses. This system is based on the principle of unified state power, in which the legislature, the ...

  4. Twitter, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Twitter is a social networking service on which users send and respond publicly or privately texts, images and videos known as "tweets". X, formerly known as Twitter, launched a new feature called “Stories” in 2024, that uses Grok AI chatbot to provide summarized news events on the platform which is only available for premium subscribers.

  5. China - Wikipedia

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    China, [h] officially the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), [i] is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most populous country after India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.

  6. List of Chinese astronauts - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Chinese astronauts, sometimes called taikonauts. The list includes people trained by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. As the Chinese space program developed during the sixties, various proposals for crewed spacecraft were made.

  7. Administrative divisions of China - Wikipedia

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    The constitution of China provides for three levels of government. However in practice, there are five levels of local government; the provincial (province, autonomous region, municipality, and special administrative region), prefecture, county, township, and village. Since the 17th century, provincial boundaries in China have remained largely ...

  8. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary. Rather, the writing system is morphosyllabic: characters are one spoken syllable in length, but generally ...

  9. Mainland China - Wikipedia

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    The geopolitical term "mainland China" (the highlighted area as shown above) defined as territories under direct administration of the People's Republic of China, including islands of Hainan and Zhoushan etc. Largest cities. Shanghai. Beijing. Chongqing.