Photograph by Lingda Jiang,
China from National GeographicNight view of NanPu Bridge, Shanghai, China
Photograph by HongMing Zhang,
Young Buddhists in flowering season, China
Photograph by Yang Ting,
Taken at Mingsha Mountain in China. When the breeze blows, the wind speaks like old orchestral strings. The flag stick and the sand dunes matched.
Photograph by Staffan Holgersson,
Spectacular sunset behind the tall office towers of the Lujiazui financial district and the Hongkou district in Puxi, seen from the Shanghai World Financial Center, China's tallest building
Photograph by Ribeaut Yannick,
Red fish in a koi pond in Suzhou, China
Photograph by Blaineb Barden,
Recently I was fortunate enough to visit China and live within Jinan for nearly a month. While visiting, I would often take motorcycle rides out of the city and into the country to see the real beauty of the area. While riding through some winding side roads we came across this farmer heading in from a long day in the field. As he walked expressionless toward me it made for a breathless composition telling me the story of his daily routine.
Photograph by Chacha Chan,
This picture was taken in Hong Kong on May 12, the birthday of Tam Kung. Tam Kung is a patron saint of seafarers. He brings security and happiness to all fishermen. His birthday festival is celebrated with considerable devotion and fanfare at the Tam Kung Temple in Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, which dates from 1905
Photograph by Brian Yen,
A little exercise, Hong Kong style, before work
Photograph by Quincy Wei,
Hemu Village (Kanas, Xinjiang), ranked as one of the six most beautiful villages in China, is one of the only three remaining places where the Mongolian tribe Tuwa lives. The photo was taken at dawn after rain the previous night.
Photograph by Celia Stander,
Harbin Ice Festival, China
Photograph by Guillaume Jauernig,
I took this picture from an air balloon in Guillin, China.
Photograph by James Manley,
A deserted section of the Great Wall of China
Photograph by Bevin Roue,
China loves setting records. The lobby of the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai is on the 53rd floor. It held the record for the highest lobby in the world until the Shanghai Park Hyatt eclipsed it. This is a view of the lobby from the observation floor on the 88th floor.
Photograph by Thomas Adolphson,
While the orange "sand protection" booties might give away the fact that these are tourists visiting the Gobi desert near Dunhuang, China, the sight still gave me a sense of the Silk Road that passed through this area, carrying merchants, Marco Polo, and now, weekend vacationers from Shanghai and Beijing. There was a timelessness to the mighty dunes, the endless sky, and the wending caravans.
Photograph by Jack Seaman,
Girls in Chinese traditional Hanfu clothing celebrate the Qixi festival, the so-called Chinese Valentine's Day.
Photograph by XD Luo,
Thousands of nuns' huts built in the river valley in Garze, Sichuan Province, China. We caught the annual Great Perfection ritual there by chance. In the early morning, red-robed nuns and monks were hurrying on their way to the event location on the other side of the river.
Photograph by XD Luo,
The traditional residential buildings in the western part of Fujian Province in southeast China, Hakka earth buildings, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. This is one of the out-of-use earth buildings in a remote village.
Photograph by Ranggasatya Akbar,
Forbidden City, Beijing. Presenting another angle from a magnificent palace museum. It was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1987, it was declared a World Heritage site.
Photograph by XD Luo,
A fisherman drags nets of oysters from the turbid river water on a breathless summer day. The shot was taken in the town of Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province in June 2010.
Photograph by Yu Andy,
The dragon boat festival is a tradition in China. The purpose is to commemorate Qu Yuan's death. In Guangzhou, people celebrate this festival by riding the dragon boat and setting off firecrackers. The more the firecrackers, the more the fortunes and blessings.
Photograph by Linan An,
On the Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve, a Buddhist is filling up an oil lamp. Many pilgrims go to the temple for an invocation of divine blessing on the first day of the Chinese Lunar Year. Every oil lamp has its own special meaning.
Photograph by Rowan Bestmann,
Aberdeen Cemetery hugs the hillsides, Hong Kong
China Facts
Population:1,303,701,000
- Capital:Beijing; 10,849,000
- Area:9,596,960 square kilometers (3,705,405 square miles)
- Language:Chinese (Mandarin), Cantonese, other dialects and minority languages
- Religion:Taoist, Buddhist, Muslim
- Currency:Yuan, also referred to as the Renminbi
- Life Expectancy:71
- GDP per Capita:U.S. $4,700
- Literacy Percent:86
China Facts Flag
Map
China is the world's most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people—20 percent of the Earth's population. Occupying most of East Asia, it is the fourth largest country in area (after Russia, Canada, and the U.S.). China's geography is highly diverse, with hills, plains, and river deltas in the east and deserts, high plateaus, and mountains in the west. Climate is equally varied, ranging from tropical in the south (Hainan) to subarctic in northeastern China (Manchuria).
China's geography causes an uneven population distribution; 94 percent live in the eastern third of the country. Shandong province, with its mild coastal climate, has more than 90 million people, but Tibet, with its harsh mountain plateau climate, has less than 3 million. The coastal regions are the most economically developed—acting as a magnet for an estimated 150 million Chinese migrants from the poor rural interior. This figure, from 2008, grows by an estimated 10 million Chinese each year.
China has perhaps the world's longest continuous civilization; for more than 40 centuries its people created a culture with strong philosophies, traditions, and values. The start of the Han dynasty 2,200 years ago marked the rise of military power that created an empire—one that provided a golden age in art, politics, and technology. Ethnic Chinese still refer to themselves as the "People of Han," and Han Chinese constitute 92 percent of the country's population.
Successive dynasties developed a system of bureaucratic control that gave agrarian-based China an advantage over rivals. By 2030 it's estimated that some 60 percent of the country's citizens will live in urban areas.
The first half of the 20th century saw the fall of the last Chinese emperor, Japanese invasion, World War II, and civil war between Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces—ending with the retreat of the Nationalists to Taiwan. The People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976 imposed state control on the economy. Since 1979, China has reformed its economy and allowed competition, and today it has one of the world's highest rates of growth, averaging nearly 10 percent since the late 1970s.
Rapid industrial development has increased pollution—with China having four of the world's ten most polluted cities when it comes to air quality. The largest producer and consumer of coal, the country is turning away from coal toward clean hydroelectric resources, such as the Three Gorges Dam.
Politically China still maintains strict control over its people. Chinese rule over Tibet remains controversial, fighting with Muslim separatists in Xinjiang continues, and political issues with Taiwan remain unresolved. China regained Hong Kong from Britain in 1997 and Macau from Portugal in 1999.
In 2003 China became only the third nation (after Russia and the U.S.) to launch a manned spaceflight. The country launched a lunar orbiter in 2007 with the possibility of a manned mission to the moon by 2020.
A devastating earthquake hit Sichuan province in May 2008, leaving some 87,000 people dead or missing, injuring hundreds of thousands, and causing millions of people to lose their homes.
ECONOMY
- Industry: Iron and steel, coal, machine building, armaments, textiles and apparel, petroleum, cement
- Agriculture: Rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum; pork; fish
- Exports: Machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting goods, mineral fuels
.
Photograph by Lingda Jiang,
China from National GeographicNight view of NanPu Bridge, Shanghai, China
Photograph by HongMing Zhang,
Young Buddhists in flowering season, China
Photograph by Yang Ting,
Taken at Mingsha Mountain in China. When the breeze blows, the wind speaks like old orchestral strings. The flag stick and the sand dunes matched.
Photograph by Staffan Holgersson,
Spectacular sunset behind the tall office towers of the Lujiazui financial district and the Hongkou district in Puxi, seen from the Shanghai World Financial Center, China's tallest building
Photograph by Ribeaut Yannick,
Red fish in a koi pond in Suzhou, China
Photograph by Blaineb Barden,
Recently I was fortunate enough to visit China and live within Jinan for nearly a month. While visiting, I would often take motorcycle rides out of the city and into the country to see the real beauty of the area. While riding through some winding side roads we came across this farmer heading in from a long day in the field. As he walked expressionless toward me it made for a breathless composition telling me the story of his daily routine.
Photograph by Chacha Chan,
This picture was taken in Hong Kong on May 12, the birthday of Tam Kung. Tam Kung is a patron saint of seafarers. He brings security and happiness to all fishermen. His birthday festival is celebrated with considerable devotion and fanfare at the Tam Kung Temple in Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, which dates from 1905
Photograph by Brian Yen,
A little exercise, Hong Kong style, before work
Photograph by Quincy Wei,
Hemu Village (Kanas, Xinjiang), ranked as one of the six most beautiful villages in China, is one of the only three remaining places where the Mongolian tribe Tuwa lives. The photo was taken at dawn after rain the previous night.
Photograph by Celia Stander,
Harbin Ice Festival, China
Photograph by Guillaume Jauernig,
I took this picture from an air balloon in Guillin, China.
Photograph by James Manley,
A deserted section of the Great Wall of China
Photograph by Bevin Roue,
China loves setting records. The lobby of the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai is on the 53rd floor. It held the record for the highest lobby in the world until the Shanghai Park Hyatt eclipsed it. This is a view of the lobby from the observation floor on the 88th floor.
Photograph by Thomas Adolphson,
While the orange "sand protection" booties might give away the fact that these are tourists visiting the Gobi desert near Dunhuang, China, the sight still gave me a sense of the Silk Road that passed through this area, carrying merchants, Marco Polo, and now, weekend vacationers from Shanghai and Beijing. There was a timelessness to the mighty dunes, the endless sky, and the wending caravans.
Photograph by Jack Seaman,
Girls in Chinese traditional Hanfu clothing celebrate the Qixi festival, the so-called Chinese Valentine's Day.
Photograph by XD Luo,
Thousands of nuns' huts built in the river valley in Garze, Sichuan Province, China. We caught the annual Great Perfection ritual there by chance. In the early morning, red-robed nuns and monks were hurrying on their way to the event location on the other side of the river.
Photograph by XD Luo,
The traditional residential buildings in the western part of Fujian Province in southeast China, Hakka earth buildings, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. This is one of the out-of-use earth buildings in a remote village.
Photograph by Ranggasatya Akbar,
Forbidden City, Beijing. Presenting another angle from a magnificent palace museum. It was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1987, it was declared a World Heritage site.
Photograph by XD Luo,
A fisherman drags nets of oysters from the turbid river water on a breathless summer day. The shot was taken in the town of Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province in June 2010.
Photograph by Yu Andy,
The dragon boat festival is a tradition in China. The purpose is to commemorate Qu Yuan's death. In Guangzhou, people celebrate this festival by riding the dragon boat and setting off firecrackers. The more the firecrackers, the more the fortunes and blessings.
Photograph by Linan An,
On the Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve, a Buddhist is filling up an oil lamp. Many pilgrims go to the temple for an invocation of divine blessing on the first day of the Chinese Lunar Year. Every oil lamp has its own special meaning.
Photograph by Rowan Bestmann,
Aberdeen Cemetery hugs the hillsides, Hong Kong
China Facts
Population:1,303,701,000
- Capital:Beijing; 10,849,000
- Area:9,596,960 square kilometers (3,705,405 square miles)
- Language:Chinese (Mandarin), Cantonese, other dialects and minority languages
- Religion:Taoist, Buddhist, Muslim
- Currency:Yuan, also referred to as the Renminbi
- Life Expectancy:71
- GDP per Capita:U.S. $4,700
- Literacy Percent:86
China Facts Flag
Map
China is the world's most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people—20 percent of the Earth's population. Occupying most of East Asia, it is the fourth largest country in area (after Russia, Canada, and the U.S.). China's geography is highly diverse, with hills, plains, and river deltas in the east and deserts, high plateaus, and mountains in the west. Climate is equally varied, ranging from tropical in the south (Hainan) to subarctic in northeastern China (Manchuria).
China's geography causes an uneven population distribution; 94 percent live in the eastern third of the country. Shandong province, with its mild coastal climate, has more than 90 million people, but Tibet, with its harsh mountain plateau climate, has less than 3 million. The coastal regions are the most economically developed—acting as a magnet for an estimated 150 million Chinese migrants from the poor rural interior. This figure, from 2008, grows by an estimated 10 million Chinese each year.
China has perhaps the world's longest continuous civilization; for more than 40 centuries its people created a culture with strong philosophies, traditions, and values. The start of the Han dynasty 2,200 years ago marked the rise of military power that created an empire—one that provided a golden age in art, politics, and technology. Ethnic Chinese still refer to themselves as the "People of Han," and Han Chinese constitute 92 percent of the country's population.
Successive dynasties developed a system of bureaucratic control that gave agrarian-based China an advantage over rivals. By 2030 it's estimated that some 60 percent of the country's citizens will live in urban areas.
The first half of the 20th century saw the fall of the last Chinese emperor, Japanese invasion, World War II, and civil war between Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces—ending with the retreat of the Nationalists to Taiwan. The People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976 imposed state control on the economy. Since 1979, China has reformed its economy and allowed competition, and today it has one of the world's highest rates of growth, averaging nearly 10 percent since the late 1970s.
Rapid industrial development has increased pollution—with China having four of the world's ten most polluted cities when it comes to air quality. The largest producer and consumer of coal, the country is turning away from coal toward clean hydroelectric resources, such as the Three Gorges Dam.
Politically China still maintains strict control over its people. Chinese rule over Tibet remains controversial, fighting with Muslim separatists in Xinjiang continues, and political issues with Taiwan remain unresolved. China regained Hong Kong from Britain in 1997 and Macau from Portugal in 1999.
In 2003 China became only the third nation (after Russia and the U.S.) to launch a manned spaceflight. The country launched a lunar orbiter in 2007 with the possibility of a manned mission to the moon by 2020.
A devastating earthquake hit Sichuan province in May 2008, leaving some 87,000 people dead or missing, injuring hundreds of thousands, and causing millions of people to lose their homes.
ECONOMY
- Industry: Iron and steel, coal, machine building, armaments, textiles and apparel, petroleum, cement
- Agriculture: Rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum; pork; fish
- Exports: Machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting goods, mineral fuels
.
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