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  1. Complete the sentence about Guangzhou with the correct year: The domestic migrant population from other provinces of China in Guangzhou was 40% of the city's total population in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Chengdu with the correct year: Chengdu's culture reflects that of its province, Sichuan; in ______, it was recognized by UNESCO as a city of gastronomy.
  3. Complete the sentence about Chengdu with the correct year: Under the PRC, Chengdu's importance as a link between Eastern China and Western China expanded, with railways built to Chongqing in ______, a…
  4. Complete the sentence about Tianjin with the correct year: As a treaty port since ______, Tianjin has been a seaport and gateway to Beijing.
  5. Complete the sentence about Wuhan with the correct year: In ______, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the city was the site of the Battle of Wuhan.
  6. Complete the sentence about Wuhan with the correct year: In ______, Wuhan was designated as a Creative City by UNESCO, in the field of design.
  7. Complete the sentence about Xi'an with the correct year: The site is now home to the Xi'an Banpo Museum, built in ______ to preserve the archaeological collection.
  8. Complete the sentence about Suzhou with the correct year: Since the reform and opening up began in ______, Suzhou attained GDP growth rates of about 14% in 35 years.
  9. Complete the sentence about Shenyang with the correct year: The ______ Battle of Mukden took place south of Shenyang as part of the Russo-Japanese War.
  10. Complete the sentence about Shenyang with the correct year: In ______, the Mukden incident led to the Japanese invasion and occupation of the rest of Manchuria, and the establishment of the puppet sta…
  11. Complete the sentence about Dalian with the correct year: In ______, Dalian ranked 82nd in the Global City Competitiveness Index.
  12. Complete the sentence about Dalian with the correct year: In ______, Dalian was named China's most livable city by China Daily.
  13. Complete the sentence about Qingdao with the correct year: In ______, following the outbreak of World War I, Japan occupied the city and the surrounding province during the Siege of Tsingtao.
  14. Complete the sentence about Qingdao with the correct year: In ______, China agreed to recognize Japan's special position in the territory through what became known as the Twenty-One Demands.
  15. Complete the sentence about Qingdao with the correct year: In ______, the Chinese government, under the control of the warlord Duan Qirui, secretly agreed to Japanese terms in exchange for a loan.
  16. Complete the sentence about Qingdao with the correct year: In ______, Shandong reverted to Chinese control following the United States' mediation during the Washington Naval Conference.
  17. Complete the sentence about Qingdao with the correct year: In ______, Qingdao was named China's most livable city by the Chinese Institute of City Competitiveness.
  18. Complete the sentence about Guiyang with the correct year: The area has been inhabited since at least the Spring and Autumn period and officially became the provincial capital in ______, during the Mi…
  19. Complete the sentence about Urumqi with the correct year: The Qing dynasty took Ürümqi in ______, during its conquest of the Dzungar Khanate.
  20. Complete the sentence about Urumqi with the correct year: The Chinese Communist Party restored the name "Ürümqi" on 1 February ______, believing Dihua to be a belittling and ethnically chauvinist name…
  21. Complete the sentence about Urumqi with the correct year: After ______, the Qing government established state farms in the under-populated areas around Ürümqi, where there was fertile, well-watered la…
  22. Complete the sentence about Xining with the correct year: Although long a part of Gansu province, Xining was added to Qinghai in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Xining with the correct year: A major earthquake occurred May 22, ______, measuring at a magnitude of 7.6.
  24. Complete the sentence about Yinchuan with the correct year: After Xia attempted to reassert its independence, in ______ the Mongols returned and slaughtered the city's entire population.
  25. Complete the sentence about Hefei with the correct year: When the Chinese Republic was founded in ______, the superior prefecture was abolished, and the city took the name of Hefei.
  26. Complete the sentence about Haikou with the correct year: During the Chinese Civil War, Haikou was one of the last Nationalist strongholds to be taken by the Communists with the Battle of Hainan Islan…
  27. Complete the sentence about Haikou with the correct year: When Qiongshan was opened to foreign trade under the Treaty of Tianjin in ______, Haikou started to rival the old administrative city.
  28. Complete the sentence about Haikou with the correct year: In ______, Haikou overtook Qiongshan in population and it was declared a separate administrative city.
  29. Complete the sentence about Haikou with the correct year: The city and island of Hainan stayed under the control of the Nationalists until April ______, when it fell to the Communists during the Landi…
  30. Complete the sentence about Haikou with the correct year: Since ______, Haikou has maintained its position as Hainan's main port, handling more than half of the island's total trade.
  31. Complete the sentence about Sanya with the correct year: In ______, administration of Yaxian relocated from Yacheng to Sanya and Yaxian merged with Baoting, Lingshui, Niulou, and Xinglong, Wanning, to…
  32. Complete the sentence about Sanya with the correct year: Atlantis Sanya opened in ______, becoming the first Atlantis branded hotel in China.
  33. Complete the sentence about Guilin with the correct year: In ______, Guilin became one of the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Sun Yat-sen.
  34. Complete the sentence about Lijiang with the correct year: Lijiang submitted to Khubilai Khan as he led his troops against the Dali kingdom in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Datong with the correct year: By ______ a portion of its city walls remained so it became one of the National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities that year.
  36. Complete the sentence about Qufu with the correct year: Together, these three sites have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Qufu with the correct year: After Oda Nobunaga conquered Inabayama Castle in ______, he renamed it as Gifu.
  38. Complete the sentence about Yangzhou with the correct year: Yangzhou was one of the first cities to benefit from one of the earliest World Bank loans in China, used to construct Yangzhou thermal power…
  39. Complete the sentence about Wuxi with the correct year: As a populous county, its eastern part was separated and made into Jinkui County in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ningbo with the correct year: Moreover, Ningbo is among the wealthiest cities in China; it ranked 8th in terms of average yearly disposable income in the year of ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Ningbo with the correct year: From ______, Ningbo was one of the first five treaty ports opened up to the West.
  42. Complete the sentence about Ningbo with the correct year: While the original Sun Lake dried up during the 19th century, the Ningbo government embarked on its restoration in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Foshan with the correct year: The Ancestral Temple was converted into the Foshan Municipal Museum upon the victory of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Foshan with the correct year: As early as ______, however, its agriculture and consumer industries were permitted to become an export production base and a modern highway l…
  45. Complete the sentence about Forbidden City with the correct year: The palace is now administered by the Palace Museum and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Temple of Heaven with the correct year: The present layout of the complex was largely formed by ______, following Qing-period reconstruction.
  47. Complete the sentence about Summer Palace with the correct year: In December ______, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List.
  48. Complete the sentence about Tiananmen Square with the correct year: Tiananmen Square was designed and built in ______ and was enlarged fourfold in the 1950s.
  49. Complete the sentence about Tiananmen Square with the correct year: Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in the square on October 1, ______; the anniversary of…
  50. Complete the sentence about Tiananmen Square with the correct year: Outside China, the square is best known for the ______ Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
  51. Complete the sentence about Tiananmen Square with the correct year: Within China, the government undertakes strict censorship regarding the ______ protests and subsequent massacre.
  52. Complete the sentence about Terracotta Army with the correct year: The figures, dating from approximately the late 200s BCE, were discovered in ______ by local farmers in Lintong County, outside Xi'an…
  53. Complete the sentence about Potala Palace with the correct year: Construction of the present structure was begun in ______ at the order of the 5th Dalai Lama, advised by Konchog Chophel, the Thirty-fi…
  54. Complete the sentence about Potala Palace with the correct year: During ______ Lhasa was made the jurisdiction of Ganden Podrang by Tsang.
  55. Complete the sentence about Potala Palace with the correct year: Sometime during or soon after ______, the Dalai Lama, the then regent of Ganden Podrang, and Gushri Khan all decided to build a palace.
  56. Complete the sentence about Jokhang with the correct year: Early into the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards attacked the Jokhang temple in ______ and for a decade there was no worship.
  57. Complete the sentence about Mogao Caves with the correct year: An important cache of documents was discovered in ______ in the so-called "Library Cave", which had been walled-up in the 11th century.
  58. Complete the sentence about Longmen Grottoes with the correct year: The grottoes were excavated and carved with Buddhist subjects over the period from 493 AD to ______ AD, in four distinct phases.
  59. Complete the sentence about Yungang Grottoes with the correct year: In ______, the Yungang Grottoes were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  60. Complete the sentence about Leshan Giant Buddha with the correct year: The Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area, has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ____…
  61. Complete the sentence about Mount Tai with the correct year: Because of its sacred importance and dramatic landscape, it was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Mount Everest with the correct year: To approximate a climb of the entire height of Mount Everest, one would need to start from this coastline, a feat accomplished by Tim M…
  63. Complete the sentence about Mount Everest with the correct year: Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented ascent of Everest in ______, using the Southeast Ridge route.
  64. Complete the sentence about Mount Everest with the correct year: The Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo, and Qu Yinhua made the first reported ascent of the peak from the North Ridge on…
  65. Complete the sentence about Mount Everest with the correct year: Everest himself opposed the honour, and told the Royal Geographical Society in ______ that "Everest" could neither be written in Hindi…
  66. Complete the sentence about Mount Everest with the correct year: Despite Everest's objections, Waugh's proposed name prevailed, and the Royal Geographical Society officially adopted the name "Mount Ev…
  67. Complete the sentence about Mount Kailash with the correct year: Herbert Tichy visited the area in ______, attempting to climb the mountain.
  68. Complete the sentence about Mount Kailash with the correct year: I would suggest they go and climb something a little harder." In ______, permission was denied to a Spanish team, who requested to clim…
  69. Complete the sentence about Zhangjiajie National Forest Park with the correct year: In ______, Wulingyuan was officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  70. Complete the sentence about Zhangjiajie National Forest Park with the correct year: In ______, Zhangjiajie geopark was listed as a UNESCO global geopark.
  71. Complete the sentence about Zhangjiajie National Forest Park with the correct year: The Bailong Elevator, literally "hundred dragons sky lift", was opened to the public in ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Jiuzhaigou Valley with the correct year: In ______, famous forestry scientist Wu Zhonglun conducted a comprehensive survey of Jiuzhaigou.
  73. Complete the sentence about Three Gorges Dam with the correct year: In ______, the Nationalist government, led by Chiang Kai-shek, began preliminary work on plans in the Three Gorges.
  74. Complete the sentence about Three Gorges Dam with the correct year: In ______, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese military forces occupied Yichang and surveyed the area.
  75. Complete the sentence about Yangtze with the correct year: By ______, English cartographers such as Aaron Arrowsmith had adopted the French style of the name as Yang-tse or Yang-tse Kiang.
  76. Complete the sentence about Tarim River with the correct year: The last major river change occurred in ______, when the main stream was diverted to the east and flowed into Lop Nur through the Kongque…
  77. Complete the sentence about Tarim River with the correct year: In ______, a dam was built near Yuli County, separated from the Kongque River, and the river water returned to Taitma Lake and Lop Nur th…
  78. Complete the sentence about Songhua River with the correct year: In November ______, the river was contaminated with benzene, leading to a shutdown of Harbin's water supply.
  79. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the part near the city of Jilin was affected by a minor flood.
  80. Complete the sentence about Tian Shan with the correct year: At the ______ Conference on World Heritage, the eastern portion of Tian Shan in western China's Xinjiang Region was listed as a World Herit…
  81. Complete the sentence about Tian Shan with the correct year: The Tian Shan's glaciers are rapidly receding, losing 27% or 5.4 billion tons of ice since ______— nearly four times the global average of…
  82. Complete the sentence about Lake Qinghai with the correct year: After the ______ Chinese revolution, refugees from the 1950s Anti-Rightist Movement settled in the area west of Qinghai Lake.
  83. Complete the sentence about Poyang Lake with the correct year: In ______, the Battle of Lake Poyang took place there; the battle is claimed to be the largest naval battle in history.
  84. Complete the sentence about Bohai Sea with the correct year: China declared the Bohai sea to be part of its inland waters in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Bohai Sea with the correct year: In ______-95, the First Sino-Japanese War broke out, and it featured critical naval engagements in and around the Bohai Sea.
  86. Complete the sentence about Bohai Sea with the correct year: Subsequently, in early ______, Japanese troops invaded the Shandong Peninsula and captured Weihaiwei, a heavily fortified naval base at the…
  87. Complete the sentence about Yellow Sea with the correct year: For example, the seaweed production in the area was as high as 1.5 million tonnes in ______ for China alone.
  88. Complete the sentence about South China Sea with the correct year: The majority of the sea came under Japanese naval control during World War II, following the military acquisition of many surrounding…
  89. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Strait with the correct year: Aircraft from Taiwan crossed it frequently until the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Strait with the correct year: Furthermore, Chinese military exercises around Taiwan since ______ has completely erased the concept of a supposed median line.
  91. Complete the sentence about Spratly Islands with the correct year: In ______, the Spratly Islands were coral islets mostly inhabited by seabirds.
  92. Complete the sentence about Spratly Islands with the correct year: In April ______ The New York Times reported that China were using "scores of dredgers" to convert Fiery Cross Reef and several other…
  93. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong with the correct year: The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Macau with the correct year: Formerly a Portuguese colony, the territory of Portuguese Macau was first leased to Portugal by the Ming dynasty as a trading post in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Macau with the correct year: The colony remained under Portuguese rule until the ______ handover to China.
  96. Complete the sentence about Pudong with the correct year: Premier Li Peng announced the policy of Pudong's opening and development on April 18, ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Pudong with the correct year: On October 1, ______, the original area of Pudong County and Chuansha County merged and established Pudong New Area.
  98. Complete the sentence about Pudong with the correct year: In ______, the Chinese government set up a Special Economic Zone in Chuansha, creating the Pudong New Area.
  99. Complete the sentence about The Bund with the correct year: On March 28, ______, the eve of the opening of the World Expo, the Bund fully completed its renovation project.
  100. Complete the sentence about Oriental Pearl Tower with the correct year: On March 25, ______, the idea was formally proposed to the city congress, which chose a site in Lujiazui, an area rapidly develo…

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