用英文介绍中国少数民族

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

According to the fifth national census taken in 2001, the Han people made up 91.59 percent of the country's total population, totaling 1159.4 million; and the other 55 ethnic groups, 8.41 percent, totaling 106.43 million. As the majority of the population is of the Han ethnic group, the other 55 ethnic groups are customarily referred to as the national minorities.


The Han people can be found throughout the country, though mainly on the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River valleys, and the Northeast Plain. The national minorities, though fewer in number, are also scattered over a vast area, mainly distributed in the border regions from northeast China to north, northwest and southwest China. The largest is the 12 million-strong Zhuang ethnic group in southwestern China. And Yunnan Province, home to more than 20 ethnic groups, has the greatest diversity of minority people in China.


Equality, unity and common prosperity are the fundamental objectives of the government in handling the relations between ethnic groups. China exercises a policy of regional autonomy for various ethnic groups, allowing ethnic groups living in compact communities to establish self-government and direct their own affairs.


In most of China's cities and county town, two or more ethnic groups live together. Taking shape over China's long history, this circumstance of different ethnic groups living together in one area while still living in individual compact communities in special areas continues to provide the practical basis for political, economic and cultural intercourse between the Han and the various minority peoples, and for the functioning of the autonomous national minority areas system.

中国是以它的密集人口和巨大的领土而闻名的一个大的国家。在中国完全有 56个族群。族群的定义元素是语言，故乡和社会的价值。他们自己的 53个族群使用口说的语言，和 23个族群有他们自己的书面语言。

依照在 2001 年被拿的第五的个国民户口普查，汉人制造了向上 91.59% 的国家的总计人口，总计十一亿五千九百四十万；而且另一个 55个族群， 8.41%，总计一亿六百四十三万。同样多数的人口是有汉族群的，另一个 55个族群被照例称为国家的少数。


汉人能在国家各处被发现，虽然主要地在黄色河的中央和比较低延伸上，长江和珍珠河山谷，和东北的平原。国家的少数，虽然比较少的在数字中，也在一个巨大的区域上方被散布，主要地在来自中国东北部的边缘区域中分配

到北方，西北的而且中国西南部。最大的是一千二百万－在西南方的中国强壮的 Zhuang 族群。而且 Yunnan 省，家至超过 20个族群，有在中国少数人的最好不同。


平等，个体和共同的繁荣是政府的基本目的在处理族群之間的关系方面。中国为各种不同的族群练习一个地方自治的政策，允许紧凑的社区的族群生活建立自治而且指示他们自己的事件。


在中国的城市的大部分方面和县城镇，二或较多的族群一起住。采取在中国的长历史，一起住在一个区域的不同族群的这一个境况上的形状当但是的时候在特别的区域的个别的紧凑社区的生活继续提供实际的基础给汉和各种不同的少数民族之间的政治上、经济而且文化的交往，和为自治国家的少数区域系统的动作。