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Main article: Transport in China. Main article: Water supply and sanitation in China. Main article: Demographics of China. Main articles: Languages of China and List of endangered languages in China. Main article: Health in China. See also: Pharmaceutical industry in China. Main article: Religion in China. Main article: Chinese literature. Main article: Chinese cuisine.
Main articles: Music of China , C-pop , and Chinese opera. Main article: Cinema of China. Main articles: Fashion in China and Hanfu. Main articles: Sport in China and China at the Olympics. China portal Asia portal. Hong Kong and Macau use left-hand traffic except several parts of metro lines. The majority of the country's trains drive on the left. See List of countries and dependencies by area for more information.
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Retrieved 23 November National Bureau of Statistics of China. Retrieved 14 July Retrieved 16 May International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 19 October World Bank. Retrieved 3 January The Gini coefficient, a measure of overall income inequality, declined to 0. Higher income inequality is partly driven by unequal regional income distribution. The eastern coastal regions have been the driver of China's rapid growth, due to its geographic location and the early introduction of reforms.
As a result, the eastern coastal region is now home to 38 percent of the population, and its per capita GDP was 77 percent higher than that of the central, western, and northeastern regions in This gap widened further in the first three quarters of This is in part due to a disproportionate slowdown in interior provinces, which are more dependent on commodities and heavy industry.
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