Internship in China The People's Republic of China commonly
known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most
populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people,
approximately a fifth of the world's population. It is a
socialist republic ruled by the Communist Party of China under a
single-party system and has jurisdiction over twenty-two
provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two
Special Administrative Regions. The capital of the PRC is
Beijing. China has one of the world's oldest people and
continuous civilisations, consisting of states and cultures
dating back more than six millennia. It has the world's longest
continuously used written language system, and is the source of
many major inventions, such as what the British scholar and
biochemist Joseph Needham called the "four great inventions of
Ancient China": paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
Historically, China's cultural sphere has extended across East
Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and w