中国：其面积大致相当于加拿大或美国。
China: her size roughly that of Canada or the United States.
Her population one billion one hundred million, 22 per cent of the planet's human beings.
China: very young, 60 per cent of the Chinese under 25 years of age.
Very old, millennia of accumulated and still potent history, pride of remembered greatness motivating her march towards the new technological era which is changing the world, and changing her.
China: her history not unitary, but made up of many histories; as she is made up of many different peoples, altogether 56 nations.
Yet she is a oneness, coherent, whole.
THE GREAT WITHIN.
人口十一亿，占地球人类总数的百分之二十二。
China: her size roughly that of Canada or the United States.
Her population one billion one hundred million, 22 per cent of the planet's human beings.
China: very young, 60 per cent of the Chinese under 25 years of age.
Very old, millennia of accumulated and still potent history, pride of remembered greatness motivating her march towards the new technological era which is changing the world, and changing her.
China: her history not unitary, but made up of many histories; as she is made up of many different peoples, altogether 56 nations.
Yet she is a oneness, coherent, whole.
THE GREAT WITHIN.
高原与盆地：准噶尔（Dzungaria）、塔里木（Tarim）和柴达木（Tsaidam），以及世界屋脊——广袤的西藏高原。
There is a china of plains, easily traveled, a tourist delight.
Here are the wealthiest, the most advanced metropolises: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou,,,fertile alluvial lowlands which seem vast, yet are less than 15 per cent of her total territory.
And China's arable, cultivable acres make up only seven per cent of the world's total acreage.
On this she feeds almost a quarter of the world's people.
A prodigious achievement!