China celebrates its National Day on October 1st.

It marks the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Let's look at the History of the Holiday

After 2,000 years of dynastic rule, the Republic of China was proclaimed on January 1st 1912.

During the 1920s the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rose to prominence.

Backed by the Red Army, they began to challenge the ruling government. A civil war began in 1927.

Despite occupation by the Japanese, the civil war would continue until 1949.

On October 1st 1949, From atop Beijing's Gate of Heavenly Peace, Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

To mark China's National Day here are some interesting facts about China.

One in every five people in the world is Chinese.

China is the world's most populous country, with over 1.38 billion people, and the second-largest country by land area.

One-third of the population of China can't speak Mandarin, the country's official language.

In China over 30 million people live in caves.

Half the world's pigs live in China.

China's national sport is table tennis.

1 in every 3 socks you have were made in the district of Datang in Zhuji, China, now known as "Sock City".

More people go to church on Sunday in China than in the whole of Europe.

The Chinese are the single biggest source of global tourism income.

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake in China was the deadliest earthquake on record with 830,000 deaths.

Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.

Almost all of The Great Wall of China is in ruins.

Any photographs you have seen of the Wall are from Beijing, where some of the Wall was restored in the 1400s.

The Great Wall of China is over 22,000km (13,170 miles) long. It was built by one million laborers 2,200 years ago.

400,000 of those workers died while making it and their bodies were buried inside the wall.

​It’s so long that it covers three countries - China, North Korea and Mongolia.

China is the world's largest consumer of red wine.

Many Chinese words have been adopted into the English language including "ketchup", "typhoon", and "tycoon."

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The Sunrise in parts of China can be as late as 10 AM as the country joined its five time zones into a single one.

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