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China, photos of China, China pictures - Longmen Grottoes, Chongqing, Beijing, Forbidden City, Fujian Tulou, Great Wall Longmen Grottoes, Shanghai, Summer Palace in Beijing - Yiheyuan, Tiananmen Square ______ China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party, with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The history of China goes back to the ancient civilization – one of the world's earliest – that flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. China had the largest and most complex economy in the world for most of the past two thousand years.