China Country and nature

The country broke from the inside in many Asian highlands rising levels to the east from the Pacific. The East is surrounded by low mountains, between the large and fertile basin Lowlands of the rivers "Huang He. Chang Jiang "and" Jiang Xi "are turned on. To the south lies the South China karst. Bergisch Land, to which adjoins the northeast, the fertile Red Basin of Sichuan. The north and northwest is occupied by arid and Tafelhochländern Hochbecken. The Northeast has humid seasons and chilly, dry winter, in the southeast there is some homo philes and hazy subtropical climate. The northwest and north, however, is very dry with extreme temperature contrasts between summer and winter.

China is the spot test populous country in the world. 94% are Chinese, who confess to Buddhism and Confucian belief, but by culture, race and language are extremely uneven. They consist mainly in the east of the country ² sometimes even over 200 inhabitants / km.

Economically, it is the best farming areas in the great river plains in the east of the state. Main crops are wheat, millet, cotton, soybeans, peanuts, rice, tea and sweet potatoes. In the western adjoining areas dominated the livestock industry. The forestry sector is precisely what tung and teak oil. China is one of the kohlenansehnlichsten countries in the world. Also, it has caused iron ore, tin, petroleum, manganese, and bauxite deposits as well as the largest tungsten, antimony and molybdenum in the world. The main industrial branches are iron and steel production, automotive and mechanical engineering, fertilizer production, textile and petroleum industries. The railway and road network is very poorly extended, so the method branches network of inland waterways play the more important. The most important overseas port is Shanghai. There are international airport in Shanghai, Canton and Peking.

China History

The beginnings of the Chinese nation-building are in the lowlands by the average "Huang". Historically, the first time tangible "Shang - Dynasty (17th to 11th century BC) bronze art and sophisticated writing. Under the "Zhou - Dynasty China was divided since 8 Century BC into each other warring states. In the 5th Entswickelten century BC, the philosophical principles of Confucianism and Daoism.

221 BC agreed the prince of "Qin", "first emperor" ("Shi Huang") the kingdom. Under the "Han - Dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) China was mainly to the bureaucratic state. Then it came to the often decay and restore the unit. Buddhism came, and gradually became dominant. Under the "Tang - Dynasty (618-906) China was a cosmopolitan and experienced world power and cultural flowering. In the 13 Century, the Mongols conquered China and manages over to 1368th The them is "Ming - Dynasty moved the capital to Peking and aufbesserten the Chinese Wall. The largest expansion of power of China in the 18th Followed in the 19th century Century of Decline: penetration of European powers and defeats to the Japanese people.

The democratic revolution of 1911 "Sun Yat-sen" acted with the Republic of China. After a long civil war between local rulers "Chiang Kai - Shek" put the unity of China in 1928 to restore, the Communists under Mao Zedong ", which had bases in the south since 1927, withdrew to the north.