Traditional Chinese or People's Republic of China commonly known as China is most populous country with over 1.3 billion people and is largest country in East Asia . China makes about 1/5 th of total population of word, it is socialist republic ruled by the Chinese Communist party under single party system. China has jurisdiction over 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities and 2 self governing Special Administrative Regions. Capital of People's Republic of China is Beijing . At about 9.6 million square kilometers it is world's third largest country by area and second largest by land. Landscape of country is diverse having forest steppes and the deserts in north dry near Mongolia and the Russian Siberian with subtropical forests in wet south which is close to Laos , Vietnam and Myanmar .

In today's world, importance of china is reflected by its role as 3rd largest economy of world nominally and permanent member of UN Security Council and being member of several multilateral organizations APEC, WTO, Shanghai Cooperation and East Asia Summit.