POPULATION GROWTH - China

... Context: BASIC INFORMATION P.2 POPULATION GROWTH P.8 POPULATION DISTRIBUTION P.12 INTERNAL MIGRATION P.14 CHINA STICKS TO POPULATION CONTROL POLICY IN NEW CENTURY P.16 PRESIDENT ON POPULATION CONTROL, RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION P.17 LITERATURE P.19 BASIC INFORMATION China is a multinational country, with a population composed of a large number of ethnic and linguistic groups. Almost all its inhabitants are of Mongoloid stock: thus, the basic classification of the population is not so much Han ethnic as linguistic. The Han (Chinese), the largest group, (Chinese) outnumber the minority groups or minority nationalities in every province or autonomous region except Tibet and Sinkiang. The Han. therefore, form the great homogeneous mass of the Chinese people, sharing the same culture, the same traditions, and the same written language. Some 55 minority groups are spread over approximately 60 percent of the total area of the country. Where these minority groups are found in large numbers, they have been given some semblance of autonomy and self-government; autonomous regions of

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