1. The Giant Panda of China is one of the rarest
animals in the world. Giant pandas live in remote high mountains in Sichuan,Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces and eat bamboo. They are a
surviving species of the Fourth Ice Age and are known as a "living
fossil". They are regarded as China's "national treasure".
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1.熊猫。大熊猫生活在中国的四川、陕西、甘肃的偏远高山上，以竹为食，属于第四纪冰川时期的残留物种，有“活化石”之称，被誉为中国的“国宝”。
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2. The oldest tree in the world is China's
gingko,which first appeared during the Jurassic Age some 160 million
years ago.
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2. 世界上最古老的树种是中国的银杏树，此树最早出现于16，000万年前的侏罗纪时期。
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3. The greatest canyon in the world is China's
Brahmaputra Canyon, 504.6 kilometers long and 6,009 meters deep at
its deepest spot. Its average depth is 2,268 meters.
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3.
世界上最大的峡谷是中国的雅鲁藏布大峡谷，长504.6公里，最深处达6，009米，平均深度在2，268米以上。
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4. The highest plateau in the world is China's
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with an average height of 4,500 meters above
sea level. The Himalayan Mountain is located in southern
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its highest peak,Mount Qomolangma(or Mount
Everest) is 8,848.13 meters above sea level. It is the highest peak
in the world.
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4.
世界上最高的高原是中国的青藏高原，平均海拔4，500米。喜玛拉雅山脉位于青藏高原的南部，主峰珠穆朗玛峰，海拔8，848.13米，为世界第一高峰。
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5. The Chinese language is the language that has the
largest number of speakers, more than 1.2 billion, throughout world.
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5. 世界上使用人数最多的语言是中国的汉语，有12亿多人。
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6. The biggest and earliest encyclopedia in the world
is the Yongle Encyclopedia complied between 1403-1408 in the Ming
Dynasty by more than 2,000 scholars. It consists of 22,937 volumes.
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6.
世界上最早、最大的百科全书是中国明朝的《永乐大典》，共22，937卷，由2千名学者在1403-1408年编成。
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7. The largest public square in the world is
Tian'anmen Square in Beijing. It covers an area of 40 hectares.
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7. 世界上最大的广场是中国北京的天安门广场，占地40公顷。
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8. The earliest and longest man-made canal in the
world is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The canal was first built
in the 5th century BC and was substantially extended twice during
the Sui and Yuan dynasties. The canal begins at Tongxian County in
Beijing in the north and ends in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province in
the south and is 1,801 kilometers in length.
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8.
世界上开凿最早、线路最长的人工运河是中国的京杭大运河，始建于公元前5世纪，后经隋、元两次大规模扩建，北起北京通县，南至浙江杭州，全长1801公里。
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9. The biggest and most complete ancient building
complex is the former Imperial Palace (also known as the Forbidden
City) in Beijing. It was imperial palace of both the Ming and Qing
dynasties. It was first completed in 1420 and covers an area of
720,000 square meters.
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9.
世界上最大、最完整的古建筑群之一是中国北京的故宫（又称紫禁城），是明清两个朝代的皇宫，建成于1420年，占地72万多平方米。
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10. The longest man-made architecture in the world is
the Great Wall in China. It climbs and descends on the ridges of
mountains in northern China and has a total length of more than
6,700 kilometers. It was first started during the Spring and Autumn
and the Warring States periods.
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10.
世界上最长的人造建筑是中国的长城，它横穿中国北方的崇山峻岭之巅，总长度6，700多公里，始建于春秋战国。
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