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[AdamChen]

i was inspired by other topics (japanese image and american image), so I intend to people from different parts of the world give me a mirror. let me know how chinese is. thank you!!!

[*river*]

China is a multicultural society, and consists of many ethnic groups which have their own heritage. you ask how Chinese is , so i'm confused about which group do you mean to?

[ltp-008]

China is a developing country in the world.

In terms of economy China is not longer a communist country in which in some extent its economy is mainlly dominated by private section although the government still control main industries such as banking,oil,airline,railway,and so on.

In terms of politics China is still a dictatorship country in which their people don't have the right to directly elected their leaders such as president and local officials;their people don't have the right to access to some oversea media becuase their governmet blocks some oversea media which Chinese governmet regard them as sensitive to their ruling,their people can only listen ,watch,read state-run media,so they don't have the freedom of press;their people don't have the rights to assemble because their government bans any protests unless these assembles are organized by goverment;Chinese people don't have the freedom of religion,government only allow their people to worship their beliefs in government-controlled sites,if you don't ,you will get punished or be sent to prisons.

Since the beginning of reform in 1979,Chinese eonomy has improved a lot ,its economy has being transformed into free-market economy from command economy in which almost every goods are artificially distributed to every people.This type of command economy slows down the economy development,you can see why Cuba and North Korea don't develop their economies very well ,because they have been practising command economy since the founding of their nations.

Chinese economy reforms have fruitful results in which their lives have been improved a lots,but there are several problems facing China,for instance, the corruptions are very popular in most officials ,because China is ruled by only one party-communist party,they don't have the ability to correct itself,furthermore,no media which are controlled by the government dare to criticize governmental officials ,if they do,they will get punishes and in trouble,so the corruptions in China are thriving .

My some chinese friends told me that they want China to perform political reform ,give up one-party ruling and practise democratic reform ,no one is for sure if the Chinese communist regime is willing to reform their political system,perhaps they want to illegally rule their people for good.Who knows ?