the People's Republic/人民共和国

Boasting institutions of a modern state 1,800 years prior to the West, China is a People's Republic that has emerged as a leading world power. 中国比西方早1800年就具备了现代国家元素，是一个成功崛起为世界大国的"人民共和国" China was the world's first true state. When comparing China's form of statehood with the Western nation-state model, the latter falls short in many respects against the standards set by the former.