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  2. Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project - Wikipedia

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    End point. Bluefields. The Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project, informally the Nicaragua Canal ( Spanish: Canal de Nicaragua, also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal, or the Grand Interoceanic Canal) was a proposed shipping route through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean Sea (and therefore the Atlantic Ocean) with the Pacific Ocean.

  3. Welfare in China - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is responsible for the social welfare system . Welfare in China is linked to the hukou system. Those holding non-agricultural hukou status have access to a number of programs provided by the government, such as healthcare, employment, retirement pensions, housing, and education.

  4. One Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    One Vanderbilt is a 73-story supertall skyscraper at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for developer SL Green Realty, the skyscraper opened in 2020. Its roof is 1,301 feet (397 m) high and its spire is 1,401 feet (427 m) above ground, making it ...

  5. Hukou - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Hukou ( Chinese: 户口; lit. 'household individual') is a system of household registration used in mainland China. The system itself is more properly called " huji " ( Chinese: 户籍; lit. 'household origin'), and has origins in ancient China; hukou is the registration of an individual in the system ( kou literally means "mouth ...

  6. ISO 3166-1 - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-1 ( Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It is the first part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization .

  7. China and the World Trade Organization - Wikipedia

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    Politics of China. China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 11 December 2001, [1] after the agreement of the Ministerial Conference. [2] The admission was preceded by a lengthy process of negotiations and required significant changes to the Chinese economy. Its membership has been contentious, with substantial economic and ...

  8. One country, two systems - Wikipedia

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    e. " One country, two systems " is a constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau . Deng Xiaoping developed the one country, two systems concept. This constitutional principle was formulated in the early 1980s during negotiations over Hong ...

  9. TikTok - Wikipedia

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    TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes.