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How China has changed - in numbers

A story of growth and mass urbanisation - in pictures, interactive graphics and video.

China's economic miracle

Construction site in ChinaReaching for the skies Watch

Watch 90-second time-lapse footage of a skyscraper built in just 19 days in Changsha, southern China

China's gender split

Woman in maskFeisty feminists battle sexism

Has the arrest of the 'Feminist Five' silenced online debate about women's issues in China?

China's urbanisation

Luxury China 2013 exhibition on June 22, 2013 in Beijing, China.Can China spend itself richer?

Can China's expanding middle class spend its way to global dominance?

China's politics

  • Young Chinese middle classNo democracy, no problem?

    The Chinese government may not embrace full democracy - but it will have to respond to growing demands for liberalisation from its population, says Jonathan Fenby.

  • A worker carries a rope at a construction site for a new road in Beijing on 1 August 2013The gamble of rapid change

    A commitment to rapid urbanisation - and the belief that this will reduce inequality - appears to be the bold feature of Chinese President Xi Jinping's Third Plenum reform, writes Kerry Brown.

  • A paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of a portrait of the late chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing's Tiananmen SquareHow China is ruled: A clickable guide

    How China is ruled: Communist Party

  • Man climbing ladder with lanternsHow to get to the top of China's Party

    What sort of people succeed inside one of the world's most rigid authoritarian systems, China's Communist Party? The BBC's Angus Foster outlines what it takes to get to the top.

China in numbers