China - True or False

Out of the 1.4 billion people who live in China, about 35 million live in a cave.

Altogether there are over 50,000 characters, though a comprehensive modern dictionary will rarely list over 20,000 in use. An educated Chinese person will know about 8,000 characters, but you will only need about 2-3,000 to be able to read a newspaper.

Moms and Dads with no siblings can have more than one child, and if your first child was a girl, you can have another child.

The government doesn't have complete control over the internet in China. That's because people are very creative, and many of the citizens there have discovered that there are ways with which they can get past China's internet restrictions.

There's a fairly common myth that China is the oldest civilization in the entire world. But that's not the case.

There are many forms of Chinese, one being pictographic.

The most populous one is Shanghai.

According to Travel China Guide, the Great Wall of China was built as a military defensive line to resist invasions from nomadic tribes. But many of the country's enemies managed passage across the barrier like the Manchurian invasion that brought down the Ming dynasty.

The Great Wall was not built in a year, in fact, it took more than 2,500 years to finish construction and was the combined efforts of many states and dynasties in history.

The Great Wall of China isn't one long continuous wall but a 20,000 kilometer collection of walls which begins in the east at Shanhaiguan in Hebei province and ends at Jiayuguan in Gansu province in the west. And, is isn't just walls; there are fortresses and watchtowers, too.

Actually, they are a Japanese custom and originated in Japan.