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About China

 


Brief Introduction of China


 
   

China, a land of beauty and fascination, tantalizes adventurous travelers around the globe. China is a massive landmass spanning 60 longitudes and 4 time zones.

China, “The Middle Kingdom”, the third largest country in the world, has the world largest population of 1.3 billion people. Experience our incredible country with us, experience all the many prominent sights, enchanting natural landscapes, the blazing history and culture.
From the first Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di (259 B.C– 210 B. C.) of the Qin Dynasty, to Han-, Tang-, Song-, Yuan-, to the famed Ming- and Qing Dynasties evolved today’s China over millennia and Centuries.

On October 1st in 1949, while 300,000 people gathered on the Tian’anmen Square for a solemn manifestation, Mao Zedong, President of the Central People's Republic, declared the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the first year of the existence the P.R. of China, the Chinese Government managed the land reform in areas, where 90 % of the land population lived. 117 million acres of farmland had been allocated to 300 million farmers. The first “Five-Year-Plan” (1953 – 1957) was concluded with an astonishing success. The national income grew by more than 8.9 % p. a. during this time. A series of vital sectors of industries, which did not exist in China before, but were crucial for the industrialization of the country, such as aircraft construction, automotive industry, heavy and precision mechanical engineering, electricity and plant construction, metallurgy and construction of mining industry equipment as well as the smelting von high – grade steel and non-ferrous metal industry had been successfully build up.  

Official Political Name of the Country: People’s Republic of China
Area: 9.6 million square kilometers (3.70656 square miles)
Population: 1.3 Billion
Capital: Bejing
Ethnical Composition: 56 Nationalities (Han-Chinese 93 %, in addition: Mongols, Zhuang, Manchu, Uyghur, etc.)
Language: Putonghua (Mandarin is the official language)    
Religions: Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism
Government of Peoples Republic of China: The National People’s Congress of the P. R. of China is the highest organ of state power.

Head of State: Hu Jintao