What percentage of the country’s population is Han?

The Han nationality, also known as the Huaxia nationality, began the most magnificent historical process of national development in the history of the world's nations as soon as it appeared in the world. The development of the Han population during the monarchy society went through two major development periods.

The population of the Han nationality initially amounted to approximately two million people, and by the time of the Warring States Period it had exceeded 20 million. In the Han Dynasty, it had reached more than 50 million. By the early Tang Dynasty, the number reached 89 million, and by the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number reached more than 104.41 million.

In the twenty-eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1601), the population reached 150 million. Due to peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty, wars between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and natural disasters, the Han population declined. By the 30th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1851), the number reached more than 400 million. By the time New China was founded, its population was approximately 600 million. By the end of the 20th century, it had reached more than 1 billion. In terms of distribution, it extends from Hanland, where the Han people originally lived, to Taiwan Island and Hainan Island in the south, to the Heilongjiang Basin in the northeast, to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in the northwest, and to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the southwest.

On May 11, 2021, Ning Jizhe, Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, announced: my country’s Han population is 1,286.31 million. Compared with 2010, the Han population increased by 4.93%. [15]

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Han population

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Han population

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Huaxia

Proportion

91.51

Distribution

The characteristics of distribution throughout China are Eastern Mi Xishu

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Pre-Qin to Song Dynasty

If we calculate the population of the Han nationality from the Huaxia Group, where it originated, it was initially about 2 million people. After the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, it reached about 20 million people by the time of the Warring States Period. During the Han Dynasty, the Han population had reached more than 50 million people. By the early Tang Dynasty, it had reached between 80 and 90 million people, and by the Daguan Period of the Northern Song Dynasty, it had reached more than 104.41 million people. [1][2]

After the Yuan Dynasty

After the Yuan Dynasty, the population reached 150 million by 1601 AD (the twenty-eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), [3]. Due to peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty, wars between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and natural disasters, the Han population declined. By 1851 AD (the 30th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty), the number reached more than 400 million. By the time the People's Republic of China was founded, its population was approximately 600 million. By the end of the 20th century, it had reached more than 1 billion. Geographically, it develops from the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins to the south to the Pearl River basin to Taiwan Island and Hainan Island, to the northeast to the Heilongjiang River Basin, to the northwest to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and to the southwest to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. [2]

The proportion has declined

The State Council Information Office held a press conference on April 28, 2011. Deputy leader of the Sixth National Census Leading Group of the State Council and Director of the National Bureau of Statistics Ma Jiantang released the 2010 Sixth National Census Main Data Bulletin (No. 1) at the meeting.

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Ma Jiantang said that in this census, the Han population accounted for 91.51, a decrease of 0.08 percentage points from 91.59 in the 2000 census; the minority population accounted for 8.49, an increase of 0.08 from 8.41 in the 2000 census. percentage points. The ten-year average annual growth rate of the ethnic minority population is 0.67, which is 0.11 percentage points higher than that of the Han people. [4]

The sixth national census was conducted at 0:00 on November 1, 2010. The main purpose of this census is to find out the changes in the number, structure, distribution and living environment of China's population in the ten years from 2000 to 2010, so as to provide scientific and accurate information for the implementation of sustainable development strategies and the construction of a harmonious socialist society. Statistics support. [4]

It is understood that the census mainly investigates the basic situation of the population and households, including: gender, age, ethnicity, education level, industry, occupation, migration, social security, marriage and childbirth, Death, housing situation, etc. [4]

China’s census is conducted every 10 years, and the year ending in 0 is the census year. Since the founding of New China, seven national censuses have been successfully conducted, namely in 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020. [4]

Distribution

The characteristics of the distribution of the Han nationality throughout China are dense in the east and sparse in the west. According to the 2010 Sixth National Census Main Data Bulletin (No. 1) (China According to the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China on April 28, 2011): Among the population of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and active military personnel in the mainland, the Han population is 1.2259 billion, accounting for 9.151%; the population of various ethnic minorities is 113.8 million People, accounting for 8.49.

Based on the survey data released by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Council of the Republic of China in 2011 (outside mainland China), and the 2010 census data from the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China (data from some provinces and cities in mainland China) A rough world distribution map of the Han population (assuming that the number of overseas Chinese is roughly equal to the number of Han people, excluding ethnic minorities who immigrated overseas), the distribution of Han people is mainly in mainland China (Hanland) and the countries of immigration in the modern era of Chinese immigration history. After the end of the Cold War, Greater China refers to the transnational network dominated by Han/Chinese people under economic globalization.

In terms of geography and demography, the Han people in China are mainly concentrated in the eastern part of the Heihe River line in Tengchong. In addition, they are also more widely distributed in Southeast Asia, North America, Western Europe, and the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, especially Christmas Island and Malaysia. , accounting for 70% and 30% of the local population respectively.

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