China In General
China Brief
China (中国 Zhongguo), officially the People’s Republic of China (Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo 中华人民共和国) known is a large country in East Asia (about the same size as the United States of America) with the largest population in the world.
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With coasts on the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea and South China Sea, the overall limits of 14 countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos and South Vietnam, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is bordered to the west, Russia and Mongolia in the north and North Korea in the east. Only Russia has more land borders in Asia.
Urbanization in China
Urbanization in China comes at a very fast rate.By end of 2003 the country had established 662 cities and municipalities 20 358, with a total population of 503.9 urbanization level of 26 million increased 4 percent in 1990-39 percent per 2003.La Chinese Government plans to increase its urbanization to 50 percent by 2020 from 39 percent in 2003.
China Today
Since opening to the outside eorld in 1978, particularly with the accession of China into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 and Beijing’s successful bid for the 2008 Olympics more and more overseas visitors to China have more and more into the culture of ancient China beautiful landscape, lifestyle and people of various aspects of the visit to China society.Before country most interested populated with a vast territory and abundant resources, some of which have already read some books on China.But to really understand China, it has to China travel personally experienced first hand how a saying Chinese: “A picture is worth a thousand words, but there is more than a thousand pictures” An old Chinese proverb statement says ten thousand Li (equivalent to 5,000 km) is equal to reading ten thousand books Travel is one of the .. Main sources knowledge.Only traveling in a country can have a general understanding of its past, present and future, and customs as well.
Among the four most famous ancient civilizations of the world (the other three ancient civilizations such as ancient Egypt, Babylon and India), the Chinese civilization, the only world that developed over 5,000 years without interruption origin. The “development process, context and mechanism of ancient Chinese civilization are the main issues for archaeologists, historians, visitors and tourists to explore.
For thousands of years, the architecture of China, are religions, human, social and life styles have suffered enormous changes.China has 101 famous historical and cultural cities, 1271 national cultural monuments under the protection of, 177 staged at the state level points, 153 nature reserves at the state level, 44 national parks and 342 national geological parks and forestry, for which UNESCO included the 30 viewpoints or historical sites in the list of world heritage second July 2004.China third largest behind Italy and Spain, the world famous ancient Silk Road list display capital, 3,000 years old, well-preserved imperial palaces and gardens, Suzhou and Hangzhou, the two cities famous for its beautiful gardens and exquisite prairie across the frozen landscapes of North and snow in the foreground, the beaches of the tropical sea, Buddhist temples, imperial musemums, memorial halls, caves art, sculptures, palaces and pagodas, which reflects a great historic value are China’s national architectural styles.
Calligraphy, paintings, sculptures and various kinds of arts and crafts show the artistic talents of people from all 56 ethnic groups of the great Chinese nation.
Historical sites stud in all of China, as the stars of heaven, and museums bring visitors and tourists in various sizes and abroad on the ancient Chinese civilization.China the modernization drive, the high-tech equipment, its economy with an annual growth rate and a huge domestic market, while it shows the direction of developing a fifth of humanity in the 21st Century and offers a reminder to people in countries with economic stagnation.
will come in a short time span of more than two decades since 1978 the number of people from abroad to China, to invest, do business, travel or for a holiday has increased year after year.This promoted not only economic relations and Trade between China and foreign countries and regions, but also the mutual understanding and friendship between the Chinese people and people in the world. In 2003, China reveived 91.66 million foreign tourists in numbers, hub (33 million foreign tourists were on night (the 5th largest in the world), only after the United States, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and England.
China in East Asia, on the west coast of the Pacific region Ocean.Its country of 9.6 million square kilometers, begins with the confluence of the rivers and Helongjiang Wusuli (longitude May 13 “5 E) west of Wuqia country in the Uygur Autonomous Region Xinjiang (longitude 73 ’40 ‘E) in the west, over 5200 km apart, and the median of the Heilongjiang River north of Mohe (latitude May 3 ’31 “N) in the north of the southernmost island of the Zengmu Ansha South China Sea (latitude April 1 ’5 ‘N), on the border apart.China 5500 km’s land more than 20,000 km, with a mainland coastline stretches over 18,000 km and its neighbors more than 20 countries, either contiguous or separated by distances Sea.The more than 6536 islands over 500 square meters metres.Taiwan (an area of 35,774 km squares) and Hainan (encompassin 32 200 square kilometers) are the two largest islands in China.
China has many a land border than 20,000 km and is bordered by North Korea, Russia and Mongolia in the north, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the northwest, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and south-west, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam in the south . Across the sea in the east and southeast CHNA will face Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia
