China has a diverse geography, with 70% consisting of mountainous and plateau areas. The population of China is over 1.4 billion, with the government implementing a one-child policy from 1979 to 2015 to control rapid population growth. While Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language, China is also linguistically diverse. China recognizes 56 ethnic groups, with the Han Chinese making up over 90% of the population. Religions practiced in China include Chinese folk religion, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism.
10. Arable land percent
Arable land area (thousand km2)
Rank
Country or
region
2012
¡ª World 13,958
1 India 1,562
2 United States 1,551
3 Russia 1,197
4 China 1,065/9,600
5 EU 1,083
6 Brazil 726
7 Australia 471
8 Canada 459
9 Argentina 392
10 Nigeria 350
11. many astonishing natural sceneries.
After visiting the five sacred mountains I decided not to see the
other mountains, but after my return from Mount Huang I don¡¯t
care even to glance at the five holy mountains.
The five sacred
mountains
? Mt. Taishan,
Shandong
? Mt. Huashan ,
Shanxi,
? Mt. Hengshan ,
Shanxi,
? Mt. Hengshan,
Hunan
? Mt. Songshan,
Henan.
18. China: Population
? Consequences:
? Food supply supports 21% of the world's population with 9%
of the world's cultivable land.
? Resource strain and Energy security: hydropower, coal,
iron and oil
19. China: Population
? Counter-measures:
? Family plan as a national policy late marriages and delayed child-
birth, Birth control and calling for one child per couple.
? 100-200 million more new babies to 400 million or more
20. China: Population
Adjustment of Family plan policy: from one baby to two babies
? Double single child of parents(around2000)
? one singlechild of parents(2013)
? lift the control to two babies(2016) 6 million morebabies(est.)every year
24. 3. China: Language
Chinese-Hanyu previously mainly spoken by Han nationality
Most minority ethnic groups, especially the Hui and Zhuang nationalities have
already turned to solely or mainly using the Chinese language, some use
Chinese language or use their own language and Chinese language dually.
25. 3. China: Language
? Different
pronunciation
(dialects)
? Written with
same
character
since Qin
dynasty as
unifying force
? popularizing
Mandarin
Chinese
31. 4. China: Ethnicities
English
Name
Chinese
Name
2010
Shares
2010
Population
2000
Population
1990
Population
Growth
rate
Han ºº×å 91.6% 1,220,844 K 1,139,773 K 1,042,482 K 17.11%
Zhuang ׳×å 1.27% 16,926 16,187 15,489 9.28%
Hui »Ø×å 0.79% 10,586 9,828 8,602 23.06%
Manchu Âú×å 0.78% 10,387 10,708 9,821 5.76%
Uyghur άÎá¶û×å 0.75% 10,069 8,405 7,214 39.58%
Miao Ãç×å 0.71% 9,426 8,945 7,398 27.00%
Yi ÒÍ×å 0.65% 8,714 7,765 6,572 32.59%
Tujia ÍÁ¼Ò×å 0.63% 8,353 8,037 5,704 46.44%
Tibetan ²Ø×å 0.47% 6,282 5,422 4,593 36.77%
Mongol ÃɹÅ×å 0.45% 5,981 5,827 4,806 24.45%
1953£º6.1%£¬1990£º8.04%£¬2010£º8.49%£¬11,379,2211¡£
Generally Minority ethnicities can have two babies, no matter what gender of the first one.
Local governments have power to make their own regulation based on the law on family plan.
33. Religion in China
? Chinese folk religion (81.1%)
veneration of forces of nature and ancestors
? Salvationist religions (2.2%)
? endemic belief in Sea God, Queen of heaven, Wealth God, Martial God
? Atheism (6.3%)
? Confucianism: as a system of thoughts or a religion?
? Buddhism (6.2%) spread into China during Han Dynasty around the
Christian era
? Christianity (2.3%-5%) mainly Catholicism£¬break away from Rome.
? Islam (1.7%)arose in China's coastal cities in Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD)
by Arab traders, Uygur, Hui and Kazak, etc.
? Other faiths (0.2%)-Daoism
indigenous, founded in China during the Han Dynasty, famous for regimen
and fortune-telling technique
34. Ancestral hall or ancestral temple
and the memorial tablet
Zhongyue and Dai Temple was the place
where emperors and ministers paid
their respects to the God of Mount
Songshan and Taishan
Religion in China
36. The first Confucian Temple
in Qufu.
Confucius as great teacher, no superhuman
deity; respect ghost and god, but keep distant