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Located in East Asia, on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has a land area of about 9.6 million sq km, and is the third-largest country in the world, next only to Russia and Canada. From north to south, the territory of China measures some 5,500 km, stretching from the center of the Heilongjiang River north of the town of Mohe to the Zengmu Reef at the southernmost tip of the Nansha Islands . From west to east, the nation extends about 5,200 km from the Pamirs to the confluence of the Heilongjiang and Wusuli rivers. China has land borders about 22,800 km long and mainland borders more than 20,000 km long which with 15 neighbor countries: Korea to the east; Russia to the northeast; the People’s Republic of Mongolia to the north; Kazakhstan to the northwest, Kirghizstan and Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan to the west, India, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan to the southwest; and Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar to the south. China has a coastline of more than 18,000 kilometers. Encircling the continental margin, they are Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East Sea and South Sea in turn. Across the seas are Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia.
China is an ancient country with long civilization. As early as 1700000-200000years ago, on this piece of mysterious land lived primitive ape man, such as Yuanmou man, lantian man and Peking man. The first dynasty --Xia appeared around 21st century BC after a long primitive society. Since then, China had tumbled through 4000-year slavery society and the Monachy System was ended by 1911 -Revolution led by Sun yet-sen . In 1949 the communist party led by Mao Zedong was backed by millions of Chinese and founded new China. In Oct 1, 1949 Mao proclaimed the foundation of the PRC. China consists of 56 nationalities, but the population of different nationalities is quite unbalanced. Various nationalities overlap co-exists and on a wide expense of and lives a sparse distribution of population. The Chinese literature has a long history. Chinese traditional painting is usually called National painting or brush and ink painting. Chinese drama is a comprehensive performing art, mainly comprising opera, modern drama, singing and dance. Chinese traditional music has evolved through a long period and finally formed five categories ,that is song , singing and dance music, rap music ,theatre music and instrumental music. Coming from among the working people, Chinese acrobatics items were closely connected with their productive work, daily life and religion worship and offering sacrifice to Gods. For instance, pole climbing, which is based on the skills of tree and bamboo climbing and such items like shuttlecock diabolo and balancing on a bamboo pole are based on folk games or sports. Performance art is a generic name for various speaking and singing forms which carry on unique traditional ethnic styles.There are more than 340 kinds including story -telling ,cross-talk ,drum music and so on, among which more than 300 are very popular around every corner of ChinaTheir feature in common is to tell stories, present characters, express feelings and reflect the social life by speaking and singing with performance gestures. China offers a dazzling range of arts and crafts including paper carving, metalware, embroidery, ceramics, lacquer ware, flower painting, paper- cutting, colorful lanterns, kite and toys, among which jade, ivory-carving, cloisonne ware, embroidery and ceramics are quite famous.