@_sasha_antonov_: Day 8/92. China is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world with a history of more than 5,000 years, and the country officially calls itself "Zhongguo" (the Middle State), believing that it is located in the center of the universe. The Great Wall of China, contrary to myth, is not visible from space to the naked eye — this fact was exposed by Chinese astronauts, and its total length, taking into account all branches, exceeds 21,000 kilometers, and it was built by not one, but several dynasties for 2000 years. China is home to 1.4 billion people — one in five inhabitants of the Earth — and the government introduced the "one child" policy in 1979 to curb overpopulation, abolishing it only in 2016, which led to an aging nation and an imbalance of the sexes: boys were born significantly more, as many families preferred sons. Chinese is tonal: the same sound of ma can mean "mom", "cannabis", "scold" or "horse" depending on the intonation, and the total number of hieroglyphs exceeds 80,000, although it is enough to know 3-4 thousand to read a newspaper. The country has produced paper, typography, gunpowder, and a compass — the "four great inventions," but modern China has surprised the world with something else: it builds ghost towns (entire areas that remain empty for years), launched the first-ever probe to the far side of the moon (the Chang'e-4 mission in 2019), and grows rice in the Dubai desert using Chinese technology. At the same time, China remains a country of contrasts: megacities like Shanghai and Shenzhen with skyscrapers are adjacent to villages where there is still no sewerage, and the Internet operates under the "Great Chinese Firewall" - a filtering system that blocks thousands of foreign sites, including Google, Facebook and YouTube. Another little—known fact: China is home to the world's largest Three Gorges dam (with a capacity of 22,500 megawatts), which had to relocate more than 1.3 million people during its construction - the largest population displacement in peacetime history. #Lifestyle #world #foryou #china #cinematic

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Monday 08 June 2026 18:20:13 GMT