A introduction of China Brief Information

China is situated in eastern Asia, bounded by the Pacific in the east. The third largest country in the world, next to Canada and Russia, it has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, or one-fifteenth of the world's landmass. It begins from the confluence of the Heilong and Wusuli Rivers (135 degrees and 5 minutes east longitude) in the east to the Pamirs west of Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (73 degrees and 40 minutes east longitude) in the west, with about 5,200 kilometers apart. In the north, it starts from the midstream of the Heilong River north of Mohe (53 degrees and 31 minutes north latitude) and stretches south to the southernmost island Zengmu'ansha in the South China Sea (4 degrees and 15 minutes north latitude), with about 5,500 kilometers in between.
The Chinese border stretches over 22,000 kilometers on land and its coastline extends well over 18,000 kilometers, washed by the waters of the Bohai Sea, the Huanghai, the East China and the South China Seas. The Bohai Sea is China’s only inland sea.
There are 6,536 islands larger than 500 square meters, the largest being Taiwan, with a total area of about 36,000 square kilometers, and the second, Hainan. The South China Sea Islands are the southernmost island group of China.

National Flag

National Emblem

China's National Emblem incorporates 4 key elements - the red background and yellow stars of China's National Flag, a wheel, a wheat head and areliefof the Tiananmen Gate.
The elements of the National Flag, together with the wheel and wheat head, symbolize the New China, with Communist leadership supported by an alliance of workers and peasants.
The Tiananmen Gate symbolizes the May 4, 1919 movement led by Beijing University Students whose demonstrations against imperialism lay the foundation for the Chinese Communist Party.
The National Emblem was designed by a group whose members included architect Liang Sicheng, son of Liang Qichao, a politician in the late Qing dynasty, and his wife Lin Huiyin, a famous Chinese poet of the 40s.

China's National Anthem is a short march originating from a film produced in Shanghai in the 1930s. Also known as the 'Song of the Advancing Volunteer Army', it became the National Anthem of the PRC on September 27, 1949.
The anthem's composer, Nie Er, died in 1935 at age 25. The stirring lyrics were added in the 1940s by writer Tian Han, who also wrote the Peking Opera classic 'The Tale of the White Snake'.

The lyrics of the national anthem are as follows:
Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves;
With our very flesh and blood
Let us build our new Great Wall!
The Peoples of China are in the most critical time,
Everybody must roar his defiance.
Arise! Arise! Arise!
Millions of hearts with one mind,
Brave the enemy's gunfire,
March on!
Brave the enemy's gunfire,
March on! March on! March on, on!