China has one of the world's oldest civilizations and has the oldest continuous civilization. It has archaeological evidence dating back over 5,000 years. China was one of the largest and most advanced civilizations for most of the last two millenia; until the 1850s when it missed the industrial revolution. Subsequently, imperialism, wars and civil wars damaged the country and its economy for most of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, changes to economic policy transformed the country and made it one of the major powers once again. China is viewed as the source of many major inventions. It has also one of the world's oldest written language systems.
Historically, China's cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the Zhoukoudian cave and is one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus, now commonly known as the Peking Man, estimated to have lived from 300,000 to 780,000 years ago.
China is located in eastern Asia, the Pacific West Bank, and its layout is vividly likened to cock. The main habitat of the Chinese nation.The total area of China's territory: the land area of 9.6 million square kilometers, inland waters and border the sea area of about more than 4.7 million square kilometers. The total area of more than 1430 million square kilometers.The great Chinese nation has gone through 5,000 years of civilization course. In the ancient land of China, the industrious, courageous, and wise people of all nationalities together Yanhuang two opened up a vast land of Emperor and build a unified multi-ethnic country, and common development of the splendid Chinese culture. A heavy Chinese history, that is, the birth of a Chinese ethnic groups, development, blending and co-founding a unified nation.Since the Qin and Han Dynasties to create 望采
追答China has one of the world's oldest civilizations and has the oldest continuous civilization. It has archaeological evidence dating back over 5,000 years. China was one of the largest and most advanced civilizations for most of the last two millenia; until the 1850s when it missed the industrial revolution. Subsequently, imperialism, wars and civil wars damaged the country and its economy for most of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, changes to economic policy transformed the country and made it one of the major powers once again. China is viewed as the source of many major inventions. It has also one of the world's oldest written language systems.
Historically, China's cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the Zhoukoudian cave and is one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus, now commonly known as the Peking Man, estimated to have lived from 300,000 to 780,000 years ago.
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