CHINA GOVERNMENT ECONOMY Chief of State Economic Overview President XI Jinping largest economy and exporter in the world, but one that continues Head of Government to pursue state-directed industrial, trade, and investment policies, Premier LI Keqiang including state-support of key sectors Government Type GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) communist party-led state $25.36 trillion (2018 est.) Capital GDP per capita (Purchasing Power Parity) Beijing $18,200 (2018 est.) Legislature Exports unicameral National People's Congress or $2.49 trillion (2018 est.) Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui (maximum of partners: US 19.2%, Hong Kong 12.2%, Japan 5.9%, South 3,000 seats) Korea 4.4% (2018) Judiciary Imports Supreme People's Court (consists of over 340 $2.14 trillion (2018 est.) judges including the chief justice and 13 grand partners: South Korea 9.7%, Japan 8.6%, US 7.3%, Germany justices) 5%, Australia 4.9% (2018) Ambassador to US Ambassador CUI Tiankai PEOPLE & SOCIETY US Ambassador Population Ambassador Terry BRANSTAD 1.4 billion (July 2020 est.) Population Growth GEOGRAPHY 0.32% (2020 est.) Area Ethnicity Total: 9,596,960 sq km Han Chinese 91.6%, Zhuang Land: 9,326,410 sq km 1.3%, other (includes Hui, Water: 270,550 sq km Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Climate Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic Kazakh, Dai) 7.1% (2010 est.) in north Language Natural Resources Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, dialects, minority languages mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, Religion tungsten, antimony, manganese, magnesium, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, folk religion 21.9%, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, vanadium, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7%, unaffiliated 52.2% magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth (2010 est.) elements, uranium, hydropower potential Urbanization (world's largest), arable land urban population: 61.4% of total population (2020) as of August 2020 rate of urbanization: 2.42% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.).