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>>8723315
The Mainland hasn't participated as a whole unit basically for logistic reasons (remember, China has the same population as the Americas or Africa).
China is expected to participate in 2018 or 2021 as an entire unit (but to be honest, personally I think it will take untill 2021), other new countries/economies joining PISA 2018 for the first time include Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Morocco, Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine.

>In 2015, three economies in China participated in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment for the first time: Beijing, a municipality, Jiangsu, a province on the eastern coast of the country, and Guangdong, a southern coastal province. Shanghai, which, like Beijing, is also a Chinese megacity of over 20 million people, has participated in PISA since 2009. These four economies alone are home to more than 233 million people – more than the entire population of Brazil, nearly three times the population of Germany and nearly four times the population of
France.
>Shanghai participated in PISA in 2009 and 2012.
>In 2015, China expanded its participation in PISA to include Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Guangdong (as one unit)
>Hong Kong has participated in PISA since 2000, while Macau has participated in PISA since 2006. Both are special administrative regions of China (see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEayQ0T-qA))