China is usually left out of dialogue of early civilization which is a mistake since it was one of the first.  If you are taking a trip to China, here is some background info your should know. 

An Overview of China for Travelers

The official name of the country is the People’s Republic of China.  China covers a land mass of over 3.7 million square miles, making it a large country indeed.  The capital is Beijing.  Other major towns include Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Harbin, and Chengdu. 

With such a big land area, you can image that there’s a large range of terrain in the country.  Generally, one can find fields, deltas and hills in the east, while mountains, high plateaus and a vast desert exists in the west.  The climate ranges from tropical in the far south to arctic cold in the far north on the border with Siberia, Russia. 

The people of China are called Chinese.  The most recent population study put the total number of Chinese at over 1.3 billion folk, more than 4 times as many folk as found in the U.  S.  .  Population growth , however , has decelerated to approximately half a percent annually.  The cause of the slow down is very arguable.  Worried about business strain due to population expansion, China has implemented a policy of allowing for only one kid per family with some minor exceptions.  Enforcement of this policy is supposedly done thru fines, but forced abortions are known to occur despite presidency policy opposing them.  The government wants to stabilise the population at not more than 1.6 billion people thru 2050.  The existing child death rate is an incredibly high 25.5 per one thousand births. 

Ethnicity in China is a hodgepodge issue given its massive size and long history.  Han Chinese is the dominant group, composed of over 91 percent of the people.  This is a particularly loose group , however , as evidenced by varied dialects of language in the country.  There are 7 major Chinese dialects and literally hundreds of localized dialects.  Mandarin is the dominant dialect, spoken by over 70 percent of the population in one form or another.  That having been said, only sixty p.c of the Han Chinese can talk it with the leftover forty p.c talking other dialects.  As well as Mandarin, languages spoken widely included Turkic, Korean, Uygur, Tibetan and Mongolian.  It is often expounded that folk in one part of China can’t communicate with folk on the opposite side. 

From a spiritual perspective, China is officially non-believer.  That having been said, it requires a lax view towards religions that work with the govt.  Buddhism is the largest faith with over one hundred million practitioners.  Taoism is the second most popular.  There is a handful of Muslim and Christian believers, but nothing important. 

As this overview demonstrates, China is large and unique.  This makes it a great travel destination.

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