China Nationality

According to the lectures, over 90 percent of the population of the PRC belong to the majority

nationality, who call themselves " Han" Chinese after the first great imperial dynasty.

However, this statistics over states the homogeneity of the p0pulation, since the Han

themselves are differentiated in important respects. One striking difference is that Han Chinese

from different regions often speak mutually dialects. although the great majority of people with

some education can and do use modern standard Chinese, which as we all known outside China

as Mandarin. Mandarin is now the national language that has been promoted in schools

and by the media.