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In China, giving or accepting a bribes is a serious crime. Offering a bribe merits five years’ punishment. For serious circumstances or “heavy losses” to state interests, the punishment can range up to 10 years. “Especially serious” circumstances lead to imprisonment from 10 years to life. Accepting a bribe of greater than RMB100,000 is punishable by 10 years to life in prison or death in especially serious circumstances; accepting a RMB 50,000 to 100,000 bribe is punishable by 5 years to life; RMB 5,000 to 50,000 gets 1 to 7 years; less than RMB 5,000 is punishable by up to 2 years.
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Feng Xiaogang, director of the movie Cell Phone and the hottest commercial film director in China, started to make a series of highly acclaimed "New Year Celebration Movies" in 1996, the last of which grossed over RMB56million at the box office. His English/Mandarin comedy Big Shot's Funeral (2001) starring Donald Sutherland received great reviews and made a name for Feng in the West.
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The Paleozoic formations of China, excepting only the upper part of the Carboniferous system, are marine, while the Mesozoic and Tertiary deposits are estuarine and freshwater or else of terrestrial origin. Groups of volcanic cones occur in the Great Plain of north China. In the Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas, there are basaltic plateaus.
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Note the area called "Sichuan rice." Sichuan is one of the most densely populated provinces in China today. Sichuan, including the Municipality of Chongqing which is now administratively separate from it, has a total population of 107,000,000. Sichuan has a greater population than any European nation except for Russia.
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