China. State flag of the country

China is one of the most amazing and mysterious countries in the world. Homeland of paper and printing, gunpowder and compass, silk, porcelain and many other useful inventions and discoveries, it invariably attracts the attention of historians, researchers and travelers. Located in the southeast of the Asian continent and with its outlines reminiscent of a huge bird soaring in the sky, modern China is the heir of a great civilization, the chronicle of which is about five thousand years old.