Nature and environment In China

China's proportions are those of a continent. is correspondingly diverse the landscape. The highest mountains in the world, wide plateaus, fertile basins and plains, vast desert areas, powerful streams, but also impenetrable forests constitute the habitat for flora and fauna, in nature reserves, national parks is protected and protected areas.


Janus heads of Nature

High, inaccessible and rugged mountain -
trains dominate two thirds of the landmass
China. isolated in its long history
Mountain China and protect the kingdom -
with two exceptions - as Ge -
including standardized before the subjugation by too eroberungswütige
Neighbors. But the mountains
beneficiary also repeated the decay of
Empire in regions and clearer
easier to govern were.
A look at the rice chambers China shows
that even here positive and negative side by side
Act. The large fertile
Lowlands are through the alluvium
the great rivers arose, for example,
the Sungari- and Liao Basin
Manchuria, the middle and lower
Yangzi Basin or the Plain
Guang zhou (Canton), but the rivers
are simultaneously their curse. 26 times - most recently
1947 - moved alone the Yellow River in
Throughout history his bed, and regularly
wash over the summer floods
the great rivers the dikes.
In many parts of China's strong
Temperature fluctuations measured. Form
the east and west in the spring and
Summer a clear boundary between Monsunund
Not monsoon region, so there are the
biggest differences between winter
the north and the south, where the icy
Winter North China climate far into
the south affected. Rotates in winter
Wind and blowing from the cold north-west,
there is strong temperature falls, the
of 5-10 ° C south of the Yangzi itself within
may drop to 0 ° C an hour. Also
Floods and droughts go u. A. On the
Irregularity of monsoon back.
In the grandiose, multi-faceted, often bizarre
Natural Landscapes China could
develop a rich flora and fauna
and receive. China has the richest
Flora in all temperate zones of the world.
Almost forgotten is that we have that many,
no longer fortzudenkende from our diet
Fruits such as lemons, oranges,
Grapefruits, apricots, peaches and kiwis
originate in China. The same applies
for garden plants such as lilac, forsythia,
Peonies, primroses or roses in barely
a garden in Central Europe and its missing
also have home in the Middle Kingdom.
No less diverse presents itself
Chinese fauna. Among the animals are
so rare species such as Siberian and South Chinese
Tiger, Panda, Goldaffe, Schwarznacken-
Crane, silver pheasant and Yangzi alligator.
China now has more than
303 national parks and nature reserves and
over 2317 protected landscape areas
the preservation of this species richness.
However, large problems preparing the rising

Pollution in the course of rapid economic growth and the often
uncontrolled deforestation. In the fight against
the increasing devastation and the excessive
Deforestation in the past
to undo, China has in the past
30 years gigantic reforestation programs
initiated. Today has the
Land on the largest reforested
Forest areas in the world. China Areas
China is generally in seven major
geographically and economically contiguous
Regions divided: northeast, north,
Northwest, Central China (which in China
sometimes to South Central China -
summarizes), East - Zhongnan
South and southwest.
Northeast China (Dongbei)
In the 1930s, they knew the Northeast
under the name of Manchukuo
(Manzhouguo). Today the three provinces form
Manchuria, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang
the northeast of China, officially
Dong at called. His huge landmass
located between the sparsely populated steppes
the Mongolian highlands in the west and
the coniferous forests of the Russian Far East
in the North. The border with Russia
3400 km long and follows from west to
East over 2820 km length of the run of the Heilong
Jiang (Amur) and then the Wusuli
Jiang (Ussuri) south to Xingkai-
Lake. extending the border with North Korea
over 1,400 km runs along the
Rivers Tumen and Yalu. In the south, finally
has the northeast access to the Yellow Sea
and the Bohai Bay. A mountainous and hilly land
separates the northeast of North China and can
free only on the coast a narrow strip,
through which the main connecting routes
extend this region.
One large flat bowl resembling,
forms the Northeast China Plain
with an area of ​​350 000 km2, the largest
Level China. In the northwest separates the
Great Hinggan (Da Xing'an Ling) the level
from the highlands of Mongolia. This Mountain
runs 200-300 km wide and 100 to
about 1200 m altitude over 1200 km from north
to the south. In the far north you meet
the Little Hinggan (Xiao Xing'an Ling)
a river runs very rugged Mountain
with altitudes up to 1000 m, while the
East along the border with North Korea by
the individual parts of the Changbaishan Mountain Lands
dominated. In addition to the border rivers
there is still the major rivers
Songhua River, Nen River and Liao River, whose
Deposits large parts of North China
forming plane is therefore also
Songliao Plain lists.
is from September to early May
the climate in Northeast China under the influence
the Siberian anticyclone, the prevalence, the
dry continental polar air masses
caused. Winter temperatures
-30 ° C in the north and -20 ° C in Shenyang
South Manchuria are not uncommon.
The snowfall is limited to relatively few days,
and the snow is rare
more than 10 cm. Spring starts late,
and the transition periods are short. Only in
June temperatures rise noticeably,
and in July and August reaching then
Values ​​of 25-30 ° C. falls in these months
the most rainfall (80-90%),
often in the form of heavy rains with correspondingly
heavy flooding of the rivers. Already
in September have then been the first
Cold spells the north under control again.
From north to south mixed forests solve
with steppes, mixed deciduous forests
and finally vast pine forests
from. Over 300 rare animal species colonize
particularly inaccessible mountainous regions,
including Siberian tigers, sable, leopard
and various species of deer, while in
the marshes of the lowlands an incredible
Variety of birds such as the white stork, whooper swan
and spoonbills nesting.