People's Republic of China (PRC), referred to as "China" for short, was founded in1949 65438+1kloc-0/,located in the east of Asia and on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is a socialist country under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.
The national emblem, with the five-star red flag as the national flag and march of the volunteers as the national anthem, consists of the national flag, Tiananmen Square, gears, ears of wheat and rice, and the common language is Mandarin and standardized Chinese characters. Beijing, the capital, is a unified multi-ethnic country with the Han nationality as the main body and 56 ethnic groups.
China's land area is about 9.6 million square kilometers, the coastline of the eastern and southern continents is10.8 million kilometers, and the area of inland and coastal waters is about 4.7 million square kilometers.
There are more than 7,600 large and small islands in the sea area, of which Taiwan Province Island is the largest, with an area of 35,798 square kilometers. China borders 14 countries and is adjacent to the sea of eight countries. The provincial administrative divisions are 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities directly under the Central Government and 2 special administrative regions.
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China has a long military history. In the history of China, most dynasties were replaced by large-scale wars. Before the Qing dynasty, the Chinese empire had the most powerful army in the world for three thousand years in a row. Even at the time of its demise, the Shang Dynasty had 300,000 regular troops (in southern operations at that time), and there were constant uprisings and uprisings in history.
There are constant conflicts between China and the surrounding ethnic minorities, especially the nomadic people in the north. Since the Opium War, China's backward military forces were unable to resist the strong ships and guns of western powers, and almost all the wars between China and the West during the Qing government's rule ended in failure.
With one exception, the Sino-French war forced the fall of the French cabinet, but in the end France gained the suzerainty of Vietnam, allowing China to open its southwest ports and France to build roads in the southwest.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, China's military began to emulate the West. Since the end of19th century, as a new industrial country, Japan has carried out large-scale aggression against China.
With the help of the United States and other allies, China finally won the East Asian battlefield of the world anti-fascist war, namely the Sino-Japanese War. Then four years of civil war. As a result, China's * * * production party gained the leadership of more than half of China, established People's Republic of China (PRC), and China Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan Province Province.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-China (one of the four ancient civilizations in the world)
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-People's Republic of China (PRC)