Chinese population and minorities

In China, there is an idiom says although Chinese people may eat the same kind of rice, they can grow up into different kinds of people finally. China is a county with large numbers of people. It supports 21% of the world’s population with 9% of the world’s cultivable land. So it is easy to find unique characters in each regional inhabits in this vast land.

• Population: China carried out its fifth national population census on November 1, 2000. It has a population of 1,295.33 million. Of which: the total population of the 32 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (excluding Jinmen and Mazu islands of Fujian Province hereafter) and of servicemen on the mainland of China was 1,265.83 million; the population of Hong Kong SAR was 6.78 million; the population of Macao SAR was 440 thousand; the population of Taiwan Province and of Jinmen, Mazu and a few other islands of Fujian Province was 22.28 million.
  Population of China is expected to reach at 1.4 billion by the late 2010s, and around 2030, population of country is anticipated to peak then start dropping slowly.
• Ethnic groups: China has 56 ethnic groups. Of the people enumerated in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and servicemen of the mainland of China, 1,159.40 million persons or 91.59 percent were of Han nationality, and 106.43 million persons or 8.41 percent were of various national minorities.
• Major habits of Chinese Ethnic Minority Groups
  

  Ethnic Group	Major Areas of Distribution
  Achang	Yunnan
  Bai	Yunnan, Guizhou
  Bao’an	Gansu
  Bouyei	Guizhou
  Bulang	Yunnan
  Dai	Yunnan
  Daur	Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang
  De’ang	Yunnan
  Dong	Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi
  Dongxiang	Gansu, Xinjiang
  Drung	Yunnan
  Ewenki	Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang
  Hani	Yunnan
  Hezhen	Heilongjiang
  Hui	Ningxia, Gansu, Henan, Hebei, Qinghai, Shandong, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Anhui, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shaanxi, Beijing, Tianjin
  Gaoshan	Taiwan (population not counted), Fujian
  Gelo	Guizhou, Guangxi
  Jing	Guangxi
  Jingpo	Yunnan
  Jino	Yunnan
  Kazak	Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai
  Kirgiz	Xinjiang, Heilongjiang
  Korean	Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang
  Lahu	Yunnan
  Li	Hainan
  Lisu	Yunnan, Sichuan
  Loba	Tibet
  Manchu	Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia
  Maonan	Guangxi
  Miao	Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hainan, Hubei
  Mongba	Tibet
  Mongolian	Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Qinghai
  Mulam	Guangxi
  Naxi	Yannan, Sichuan
  Nu	Yunnan
  Oroqen	Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang
  Ozbek	Xinjiang
  Pumi	Yunnan
  Qiang	Sichuan
  Russian	Xinjiang
  Salar	Qinghai, Gansu
  She	Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong
  Shui	Guizhou, Guangxi
  Tajik	Xinjiang
  Tartar	Xinjiang
  Tibetan	Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunan
  Tu	Qinghai, Gansu
  Tujia	Hunnan, Hubei
  Uygur	Xinjiang
  Va	Yunnan
  Xibo	Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin
  Yao	Guangxi, Hunan, Ynnan, Guangdong, Guizhou
  Yi	Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi
  Yugu	Gansu
  Zhuang	Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou