Editing China (section)

=== Ethnic groups ===
{{Main|List of ethnic groups in China|Ethnic minorities in China|Ethnic groups in Chinese history}}
[[File:China ethnolinguistic 1967.jpg|thumb|Ethnolinguistic map of China in 1967]]

China legally recognizes 56 distinct ethnic groups, who comprise the ''[[Zhonghua minzu]]''. The largest of these nationalities are the [[Han Chinese]], who constitute more than 91% of the total population.<ref name="2020_census2" /> The Han Chinese – the world's largest single ethnic group<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lilly |first=Amanda |date=7 July 2009 |title=A Guide to China's Ethnic Groups |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070802718.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209112957/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-07-07/world/36836997_1_muslim-uighurs-chinese-government-xinjiang-province |archive-date=9 December 2013 |access-date=19 May 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> – outnumber other ethnic groups in every place excluding [[Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet]], [[Xinjiang]],<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographyg0000unse |title=China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change |date=2011 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield Publishers]] |isbn=978-0-7425-6784-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographyg0000unse/page/102 102] |url-access=registration}}</ref> [[Linxia City|Linxia]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Bo |last2=Druijven |first2=Peter |last3=Strijker |first3=Dirk |date=17 September 2017 |title=A tale of three cities: negotiating ethnic identity and acculturation in northwest China |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08873631.2017.1375779 |journal=Journal of Cultural Geography |language=en |publication-place=[[University of Groningen]] |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=44–74 |doi=10.1080/08873631.2017.1375779 |issn=0887-3631 |quote=The major Muslim groups in Linxia are the Hui and the Dongxiang, accounting for 31.6% and 26.0% of the population, respectively, while the Han group makes up 39.7% (The Sixth National Census).}}</ref> and [[autonomous prefecture]]s like [[Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture|Xishuangbanna]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ecosystem services and management of Long Forest created by Dai Indigenous People in Xishuangbanna, China |url=https://cases.open.ubc.ca/ecosystem-services-and-management-of-long-forest-created-by-dai-indigenous-people-in-xishuangbanna-china |access-date=23 February 2024 |website=Open Case Studies |publication-place=[[University of British Columbia]]}}</ref> Ethnic minorities account for less than 10% of the population of China, according to the 2020 census.<ref name="2020_census2" /> Compared with the 2010 population census, the Han population increased by 60,378,693 persons, or 4.93%, while the population of the 55 national minorities combined increased by 11,675,179 persons, or 10.26%.<ref name="2020_census2" /> The 2020 census recorded a total of 845,697 foreign nationals living in mainland China.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 May 2021 |title=Communiqué of the Seventh National Population Census (No. 8) |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202105/t20210510_1817193.html |access-date=22 April 2023 |website=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]]}}</ref>