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Introduction of China
China is believed to have the oldest continuous civilization. It has over 4,000 years of verifiable history. Beijing is the capital of China and is the focal point for the country. The official language is standard Chinese, which is derived from the Mandarin dialect. Most business people speak English.
China is the most crowdedcountry in the world .Almost 100 percent of the population are ethnic or Han Chinese. There are strict rules regarding childbirth and each couple is limited to only one child. China has beautiful scenery, with mountains and ranges, highlands, plains, basins, and hills.
Location of China
China ranges from mostly plateaus and mountains in the west to lower lands in the east. Principal rivers flow from west to east, including the Yangtze (central), theHuang He (Yellow river, north-central), and the Amur (northeast), and sometimes toward the south (including the Pearl River, Mekong River, and Brahmaputra), with most Chinese rivers emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
In the east, along the shores of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea there are extensive and densely populated alluvial plains. On the edges of the Inner Mongolian plateau in the north, grasslands can be seen. Southern China is dominated by hills and low mountain ranges. In the central-east are the deltas of China’s two major rivers, the Huang He and Yangtze River. Most of China’s arable lands lie along these rivers, and they were the centers of China’s major ancient civilizations. Other major rivers include the Pearl River, Mekong, Brahmaputra and Amur. Yunnan Province is considered a part of the Greater Mekong Subregion, which also includesMyanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Main Facts :–
1. Coordinates : 39° 54″ North, 116° 23″ East
2. Area : 9.6 Million square km
3. Population : 1.3 billion
4. Currency : Yuan
5. Religion : Buddhism,Confucianism,and Taoism
6. Capital : Beijing
7. Languages : Chinese and other local languages
8. Calling code : 86
9. Time zone : UTC+8
10.Famous Cities : Beijing,Shanghai,Tianjin,Changging,Hongkong,Macau
History
China is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations.In the 19th and 20th century, imperialism, wars and civil wars damaged the country and its economy. In the 1950s, change to economic policies in the Republic of China (Taiwan) transformed the island into a technology-oriented industrialized developed economy. It became known as one of the Four Asian Tigers along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. In mainland China, in the 1970s, reforms known as the Four Modernizations modernized the agriculture, industry, technology and defense, eventually making the PRC one of the major powers.China is viewed as the source of many major inventions.It has also one of the world’s oldest written language systems.
Historically, China‘s cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the Zhoukoudian cave. It is one of the earliest known specimens of Homo erectus, now commonly known as the Peking Man, estimated to have lived from 300,000 to 780,000 years ago.
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