CHINA
(People's Republic of China)

Capital: Beijing
Currency: Chinese yuan (CNY)
Population: 1319,1 million People
GDP (PPS): 25 238 bln. dollars of the USA (2018)
Area: 9 596 961 sq.km.
IRCHP: 90 (2016)
Visa: It isn't necessary, except for regions where the term of stay is limited.

ABOUT THE COUNTRY

It is the biggest of all Asian countries and has the greatest population of any country of the world. Occupying almost all East Asian part on the continent, also occupies approximately the one fourteenth part of Earth. Among the largest countries of the world China it surpasses only Russia and Canada, and almost same, as well as in Europe.
China became one of the earliest civilizations in the world, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River on the North Chinese plain. During the millennia the political system of China was based on hereditary monarchies or dynasties, starting with the semi-legal Xia dynasty in the 21st century B.C. Since then China extended repeatedly, broken off and repeatedly united. In the 3rd century B.C. Qin united the main China and based the first Chinese dynasty. The subsequent Han dynasty which governed since 206 BC till 220 AD saw at that time some of the most advanced technologies, including paper-making works and a compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and the press in the Tang dynasty (618 - 907) finished four great inventions. Tansky culture widely extended in Asia as the new sea Silk way brought dealers to Mesopotamia and Somalia. The dynastic rule ended in 1912 with Sinkhaysky revolution as the republic replaced the Qing dynasty. The Chinese civil war led to disintegration of the country in 1949 when the victorious Communist Party of China founded People's Republic of China on the continent, and the lost Kuomintang receded to Taiwan where the former republican government remained. Now the status of Taiwan is challenged.

GEOGRAPHY

The landscape of China is extensive and various: from the Gobi Deserts and Taklamakan in the north to the subtropical woods in the south. The massif of the Himalayas, Karakorum, Pamir and Tien Shan separates China from the most part of the Southern and Central Asia. Yangzi and Zheltye of the river, the third and sixth in size in the world, respectively, run from the Tibetan plateau to densely populated east coast. The coastline of China along the Pacific Ocean makes 14 500 km (9 000 miles) in length and is limited to bridges Bohai, Yellow, East China and the Southern China. China connects through the Kazakh border to the Euroasian steppe which is a communication artery between the East and the West since the Neolithic in a steppe way - the ancestor of a land Silk way.

CLIMATE

The territory of China is between latitudes 18 ° and 54 °C. Sh.I longitudes 73 ° and 135 °. The Chinese landscapes considerably differ on all the extensive width. In the east, along coast of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, there are extensive and densely populated alluvial plains.