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Date Event 500 BC: Cast iron was first invented in China. 486 BC: The Wu king King Fuchai of Wu ordered the building of the Han Canal. 484 BC: Wu Zixu died. 482 BC: The Yue king King Goujian of Yue captured the Wu capital in a surprise assault. 479 BC: The generally agreed upon date of Confucius' death. 477 BC: Ji Gai died. 475 BC
The archaic human species of Homo erectus arrived in Eurasia sometime between 1.3 and 1.8 million years ago (Ma) and numerous remains of its subspecies have been found in what is now China. [1]
Archaeological evidence suggests that early hominids inhabited China 2.25 million years ago. [33] The hominid fossils of Peking Man, a Homo erectus who used fire, [34] have been dated to between 680,000 and 780,000 years ago. [35] The fossilized teeth of Homo sapiens (dated to 125,000–80,000 years ago) have been discovered in Fuyan Cave. [36]
Layers dating from between 250,000 and 140,000 years ago in the same cave contained tools of the Levallois type which could put the date of the first migration even earlier if the tools can be associated with the modern human jawbone finds. [6] [7] [8] Africa, Southern Africa: South Africa: 200–110: Klasies River Caves, population genetics
Similar expressions such as "5000 years of Chinese history" have also emerged and become popular in China, including the People's Republic of China period. For example, the popular history books on Chinese history compiled by mainland Chinese writers Lin Handa and Cao Yuzhang were published under the title of " Five Thousand Years Up and Down ".
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The new policies were meant to help address the aging issue in China. [52] In 2018, about two years after the new policy reform, China is facing new ramifications from the two-child policy. Since the revision of the one-child policy, 90 million women have become eligible to have a second child. [53]
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