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CHINA - MY DREAM
© (Georgios Paraskevopoulos)

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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Arise! All who refuse to be slaves! Let our flesh and blood become our new Great Wall! As the Chinese nation faces its greatest peril, All forcefully expend their last cries. Arise! Arise! Arise! May our million hearts beat as one, Brave the enemy's fire, March on! Brave the enemy's fire, March on! March on! March on!On! Translation:obtained from Wikipedia) Click above - a turist trip to China Geography China's land drops off in the escarpments eastward to the ocean, letting in humid air currents and leading many rivers eastward. Population China is the most populous country in the world, with 1.25909 billion people at the end of 1999, about 22 percent of the world's total. (Hong Kong, Taiwan Province and Macao excluded, Special Administration). The population density in China is 130 people/ km2. Males 50.8 %, females 49.2 %. <b>My Dream</b> Enjoy - Handicaped Chinese Children's Contribution Ethnic Groups The largest ethnic group is the Han Chinese, who constitute about 91.9% of the total population. The remaining 8.1% are Zhuang (16 million), Manchu (10 million), Hui (9 million), Miao (8 million), Uygur (7 million), Yi (7 million), Mongolian (5 million), Tibetan (5 million), Buyi (3 million), Korean (2 million), and other ethnic minorities. Language There are seven major Chinese dialects and many subdialects. Mandarin (or Putonghua), the predominant dialect, is spoken by over 70% of the population. It is taught in all schools and is the medium of government. About two-thirds of the Han ethnic group are native speakers of Mandarin; the rest, concentrated in southwest and southeast China, speak one of the six other major Chinese dialects. Non-Chinese languages spoken widely by ethnic minorities include Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur and other Turkic languages (in Xinjiang), and Korean (in the northeast). Capital: Beijing (Peking) Welcome to Beijing - Click above Shanghai -A cosmopolitan town A tour of Shanghai - Click above Hong Kong - Searching For Heaven Welcome to Honbg Kong - Click above China has a diversity of land formations including mountains, hills, highlands, plains and basins. The highlands and hill regions account for 65 percent of the country's land mass. The highest mountain peak is Qomolangma (Everest), 8,848 metres above sea level; the lowest point is the Turpan Basin, 154 metres below sea level. Major mountains: Himalaya, Kunlun Mountains, Tien Shan Major rivers: Yangtze, Yellow River, Mekong HISTORY OF CHINA China, with a recorded history of 5,000 years, was one of the world's earliest civilizations. China was one of the countries where economic activity first developed. As early as 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, people in the Yellow River valley had already started farming and raising livestock. In the 21st century B.C., China established a slave society with the founding of the Xia Dynasty, thereby writing a finale to long years of primitive society. In 221 B.C., Qin Shihuang established China's first centralized autocracy, the Qin Dynasty, thereby ushering Chinese history into feudalism, which endured in a succession of dynasties until the Opium War of 1840. This is China -Click above The Bourgeois Democratic Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen toppled the rule of the Qing Dynasty, putting an end to more than 2,000 years of feudal monarchical systemm. Potala Tibet - Spirit of Buddha Click above - Lhasa and other places in Tibet. CHINESE DYNASTIES Xia Dynasty 21st century BC-16th century BC Shang Dynasty 16th century BC-1066 BC Zhou Dynasty: Western Zhou 1066 BC-771 BC Eastern Zhou 770 BC-476 BC Spring and Autumn 770 BC-221 BC Qin Dynasty 221 BC-206BC Han Dynasty: Western Han Dynasty 206 BC-23 AD Eastern Han Dynasty 25-220 The Three Kingdoms: Wei 220-265, Shu Han 221-263, Wu 222-280 Western Jin 265-316 Eastern Jin 317-420 Southern and Northern Dynasty: Southern Dynasty 420-589, Northern Dynasty 386-581 Sui Dynasty 581-618 Tang Dynasty 618-907 The Five Dynasties 907-960 Sung Dynasty: Northern Sung 960-1127, Southern Sung 1127-1279 Liao Dynasty 907-1125 Western Xia Dynasty 1032-1227 Jin Dynasty 1115-1234 Yuan Dynasty 1271-1368 Ming Dynasty 1368-1644 Qing Dynasty 1644-1911 Republic of China (Guo Ming Dang) 1912-1949 The People's Republic of China 1949-the present OLYMPIC GAMES 2008 in Beijing - WE ARE READY We are ready - Enjoy the 29th Olycmpics - They may be the last Kindly regards Georgios A nice Chines proverb: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" "A picture is worth a thousand words"