Real world this link puts the weapon count in 1995 at 450. With the potential to expand to 3 times that number.
http://www.wisconsinproject.org/coun...a/nuc-amb.html
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U.S. officials estimate that China has roughly 450 nuclear warheads, though China has produced enough weapon-grade uranium and plutonium to build an arsenal more than three times that size. In August, China conducted its 43rd nuclear weapon test. U.S. analysts expect that Beijing will test again this year, and maybe two or three times in 1996 before an international treaty to ban nuclear tests comes into effect.
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Of course this is only speculation and the source has the incentive to inflate the number (a non proliferation group).
Edit additional (seemingly less partisan) source puts the number at 300 for the beginning of 1995
http://www.sipri.org/yearbook/1995/09
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At the beginning of 1995, there were at least 20 000 nuclear warheads in the operational inventories of the declared nuclear weapon states: 7770 strategic and several hundred tactical warheads for the USA; 8527 strategic and 2000-6000 tactical warheads for the CIS; 250-300 warheads for the UK; just over 500 warheads for France; and approximately 300 warheads for China.
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Given they have the winter of 95 and half of 96 to build more I expect the number to go at least a bit higher.