China

China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. It has the largest population and the third largest land in the world.

For many Centuries in the human history, China remained as one of the most powerful and the richest country in the world. However, since middle of 19 Century, China experienced over 100 years of foreign invasions and conflicts, civil rebellions and civil wars, and quickly fell to one of the poorest and weakest country in the world.

The stalemate of the last Chinese Civil war after the WWII has resulted two political states using the name of China: the People’s Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, which administering mainland china, and the Republic of China (ROC), administering Taiwan and its surrounding islands.

China started her reform and open policy in 1978 with much success, its economy experienced nearly 30 years of continuous increases. As the result, China has been emerged politically and economically as a world powerful country again. Under such situation, Hong Kong, which was ceded to Great Britain in 1842, was returned by UK to China in 1997 and so was Macau, which was ceded to Portugal in 1887, in 1999.