China Ethnic Sports English Composition

China is a big country, famous for its dense population and vast territory. There are 56 nationalities in China. The defining elements of an ethnic group are language, homeland and social values. 53 ethnic groups use their own spoken language, and 23 ethnic groups have their own written language.

According to the fifth national census in 2006, the population of Han nationality is159.4 million, accounting for 91.59% of the total population in China. The other 55 ethnic groups account for 8.4 1%, with a total of1064300 people. Since most of the population is Han nationality, the other 55 ethnic groups are customarily called ethnic minorities.

Han people are all over the country, but mainly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and Pearl River basins and the Northeast Plain. Although the number of ethnic minorities is small, they are also distributed in vast areas, mainly in the border areas from northeast to north, northwest and southwest of China. The largest is the Zhuang nationality with a population of120,000 in the southwest of China. There are more than 20 ethnic groups in Yunnan Province, which is the province with the largest number of ethnic minorities in China.