Welcome back to the China Data Center, an online statistical database with the following datasets:

• Monthly Statistics
• National Statistics
• Provincial Statistics
• City Statistics
• County Statistics
• Monthly Industrial Data
• Monthly Industrial Data 1999-2002
• Yearly Industrial Data
• Yearly Industrial Data 1999-2002
• Statistics on Map
• Provincial Yearbook (2002 – )
• Provincial Yearbook ( – 2001)
• City Yearbook
• National Yearbook

China Data Center offers some freebies on its website, including a list of geo-spatial vector data including lakes, rivers, canals, and other landforms and a separate listing of free, two-dimensional maps including traffic noise in major cities, coal production, and energy consumption, to name only a few.

NASA satellite image of China