One thing I learned is that Beibei- the place I am living in- is not a city! It is actually a district in the Chongqing municipality. Since Chongqing is a municipality, I am also not technically in the Sichuan province. In China, there are four municipalities (including Chongqing), five autonomous regions, and 23 provinces. There is also Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, but I am still a little unclear what to consider those places.
There are 56 different ethnic groups in China, but 92% of the population is Han. At the last census, the population of China was around 1.3 or 1.4 billion. And believe me, the high population is noticeable in everyday life.
I also learned today that -as of recently- if a husband and wife are both the only children in their family, they are allowed to have more than one child (probably not more than 2 children, but I'm not sure). It seems as though a lot of people will have more than one child (and sometimes more than two), though, and just hide it or pay the fines that go along with having more children than is allowed.
So those are the highlights of what I learned today (well other than what I learned in my Chinese language class). Hopefully you found that info as interesting as I did!
