哪个国家呢?中国吗
下面是关于中国的英文介绍:
China,officiallythePeople'sRepublicofChina(PRC),isasovereignstatelocatedinEastAsia.Itistheworld'smostpopulouscountry,withapopulationofover1.35billion.ThePRCisasingle-partystategovernedbytheCommunistParty,withitsseatofgovernmentinthecapitalcityofBeijing.[15]Itexercisesjurisdictionover22provinces,fiveautonomousregions,fourdirect-controlledmunicipalities(Beijing,Tianjin,Shanghai,andChongqing),andtwomostlyself-governingspecialadministrativeregions(HongKongandMacau).ThePRCalsoclaimstheterritoriesgovernedbytheRepublicofChina(ROC),aseparatepoliticalentitycommonlyknownasTaiwantoday,asapartofitsterritory,whichincludestheislandofTaiwanasTaiwanProvince,KinmenandMatsuasapartofFujianProvinceandislandstheROCcontrolsintheSouthChinaSeaasapartofHainanProvince,aclaimwhichiscontroversialduetothecomplexpoliticalstatusofTaiwan.[16]
Coveringapproximately9.6millionsquarekilometers,Chinaistheworld'ssecond-largestcountrybylandarea,[17]andeitherthethirdorfourth-largestbytotalarea,dependingonthemethodofmeasurement.[i]China'slandscapeisvastanddiverse,rangingfromforeststeppesandtheGobiandTaklamakandesertsinthearidnorthtosubtropicalforestsinthewettersouth.TheHimalaya,Karakoram,PamirandTianShanmountainrangesseparateChinafromSouthandCentralAsia.TheYangtzeandYellowRivers,thethird-andsixth-longestintheworld,runfromtheTibetanPlateautothedenselypopulatedeasternseaboard.China'scoastlinealongthePacificOceanis14,500kilometres(9,000mi)long,andisboundedbytheBohai,Yellow,EastandSouthChinaSeas.
ThehistoryofChinagoesbacktotheancientcivilization–oneoftheworld'searliest–thatflourishedinthefertilebasinoftheYellowRiverintheNorthChinaPlain.Formillennia,China'spoliticalsystemwasbasedonhereditarymonarchies,knownasdynasties,beginningwiththesemi-mythologicalXiaoftheYellowRiverbasin(c.2000BCE).Since221BCE,whentheQinDynastyfirstconqueredseveralstatestoformaChineseempire,thecountryhasexpanded,fracturedandbeenreformednumeroustimes.TheRepublicofChina(ROC)overthrewthelastdynastyin1911,andruledtheChinesemainlanduntil1949.AfterthedefeatoftheEmpireofJapaninWorldWarII,theCommunistPartydefeatedthenationalistKuomintanginmainlandChinaandestablishedthePeople'sRepublicofChinainBeijingon1October1949,whiletheKuomintangrelocatedtheROCgovernmenttoitspresentcapitalofTaipei.
Chinahadthelargestandmostcomplexeconomyintheworldformostofthepasttwothousandyears,duringwhichithasseencyclesofprosperityanddecline.[18][19]Sincetheintroductionofeconomicreformsin1978,Chinahasbecomeoneoftheworld'sfastest-growingmajoreconomies.Asof2013,itistheworld'ssecond-largesteconomybybothnominaltotalGDPandpurchasingpowerparity(PPP),andisalsotheworld'slargestexporterandimporterofgoods.[20]Chinaisarecognizednuclearweaponsstateandhastheworld'slargeststandingarmy,withthesecond-largestdefencebudget.[21]ThePRChasbeenaUnitedNationsmembersince1971,whenitreplacedtheROCasapermanentmemberoftheU.N.SecurityCouncil.Chinaisalsoamemberofnumerousformalandinformalmultilateralorganizations,i