What is the national spirit of the Han Chinese

China is a united multi-ethnic country composed of 56 ethnic groups. Due to the large population of Han Chinese (91.6% of the total population), it is customary to refer to the remaining 55 nationalities as ethnic minorities. 55 ethnic minorities, with a population of more than 1 million people, there are 18 nationalities: Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uyghur, Yi, Tujia, Mongolia, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, Bai, Hani, Li, Kazakh and Dai, with the largest population of 18 million people among the Zhuang; between 100,000 and 1 million people, there are She, Lisu, Gelao, Lahu, Dongxiang and Dai. Among them, the Zhuang have the largest population of 18 million; those with a population of 100,000 to 1 million are the She, Lisu, Gelao, Lahu, Dongxiang, Wa, Shui, Naxi, Qiang, Tu, Sibe, Mulao, Kirgiz, Daur, and Jingpo, and the ones with a population of less than 10,000 to 100,000 are the Salar, Brown, Maonan, Tajik, Pumi, Achang, Nu, Ewenke, Jing, Jinuo, De'ang, Uzbek, Russian, Yugur, Bao'an, Menba, Oroqen, and Dulong, Tatar, Hezhe, Gaoshan (excluding the population of the Gaoshan tribe in Taiwan Province), Lhoba 22 nationalities, of which Lhoba has the smallest population, less than 3,000 people.

The Han Chinese are distributed throughout the country, mainly in the middle and lower reaches of the three major basins of the Yellow River, Yangtze River and Pearl River, and in the northeastern plains. 55 ethnic minorities, though small in population, are distributed over a wide area, accounting for about 64.3 percent of the country's total surface area, and are mainly found in the border areas of northeastern China, northern China, northwestern China, and southwestern China. Yunnan Province, inhabited by more than 20 ethnic groups, is a province with the largest ethnic composition in China. As a result of the many ethnic migrations, cantonments, immigrations and dynastic changes in history, the distribution of the various ethnic groups in China has resulted in a situation of mixed and clustered populations, living in a cross-section of each other. This situation has provided objective conditions for extensive political, economic and cultural exchanges between the Han Chinese and the various ethnic minorities, as well as for the implementation of the system of regional ethnic autonomy in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities.