"She" (她) for inanimate objects in Chinese(?) She in English (as this is the main language of the site) sometimes has the following function:


Used in place of it to refer to certain inanimate things, such as ships and nations, traditionally perceived as female:


Here's a line from 天下四川人 by 陈世松 that is in the '99 pressing that I have (with emphasis being my own):

这一人口数量j仅有寥寥可数的几个国家可以匹敌，让你无时无刻不感受到她的存在价值。

I have yet to come across this type of using of 她 in Chinese.

Does &quot;she&quot; (她) work for inanimate objects in Chinese?

If so, how?


edit:
Everyone seems to disagree but here are some examples from dictionaries:
Guifan

2 代 称值得自己尊重和珍爱的事物
我爱祖国, 她永远连着我的心。

KEY

3 {formal} she (as a reference to one's country, party, flag, etc.)

Hanyu Da Cidian

2 指可敬、可爱的事物, 往往用“她”字。
蒋光慈 《月夜的一瞬》诗
月儿如玉盘一般的圆, 她的美丽的清光, 神秘的笑脸, 引得我起了无名的幻想。
何其芳 《听歌》诗
我听见了迷人的歌声, 它那样快活, 那样年轻, 就象我们年轻的共和国, 在歌唱她的不朽的青春。

Liang'an

2 稱代自己敬愛或懷念的事物。如故鄉、母校等。
No, referring to ships and nations as female is an English thing. If you see that being done in Chinese, the writer must be under too much English influence. By the way, if I remember correctly, ships and nations are fererred to as male in Russian.

Edit

I believe you can find a lot of examples that use "她" to refer to various things, but still it's not common practice. In fact, using "她" to mean "she" was not introduced into Chinese until very recently, just a little more than a centuary or so, when Chinese people started to get familiar with western culture. Today most Chinese people are quite comfortable with this character for referring a female person, but the infiltration is not complete:


you would still encounter people (especially elder ones) who use "他" to refer to both male and female people; 
while there are "她" and "妳", the character "您" still doesn't have a female counterpart;
it is used for referring to a female person, not an object, in most cases;
"她" and "他" are pronounced exactly the same, so are "妳" and "你", so the distinction doesn't exist in oral Chinese.


Furthermore, this really is a cultural matter. When an American says "my country" I believe he/she must have a motherly figure in mind, but to most Chinese people, the word "祖國" just doesn't give them the same feeling.