China Travel Guide

China, with a recorded history of four thousand years, is the birthplace of four major inventions: the compass, papermaking, movable-type printing, and gunpowder, all significant contributions to world civilization. Situated in the eastern part of Asia, on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, China is the third largest nation in area in the world after the Russia and Canada. With a population of over 1.38 billion, China is the most populous country in the world comprising a quarter of the earth's population.