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Ethnic groups

China has 56 ethnic groups. The Han accounts for 91.59 percent of the national total, while the remaining 55 ethnic groups, collectively called ethnic minorities, comprise 8.41 percent. Of them, the Zhuang ethnic group is the largest, with a population of more than 15 million, and the Lhoba is the smallest, having a population of 2,000 or so. The Hans are distributed all over China, while the ethnic minorities inhabit 50-60 percent of Chinese territory, despite their small population. The Han people have their own spoken and written language, which is also the national language of China, as well as one of the universally used languages in the world. Hui and Manchu also use Han Chinese. The remaining 53 ethnic groups normally use their own languages, 23 of which have a written form. Over the ages, the Han people have established extensive political and economic ties and cultural exchanges with various ethnic minorities and they have formed an interdependent relationship for common development.

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