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Article: Tea and China's minority nationalities.
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1990
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Tea and China's minority nationalities
The Chinese population is overwhelmingly made up of Han Chinese, who comprise 93 percent of the country's 1.1 billion people. Of the non-Han Chinese the Tibetans, Mongolians and Uighurs or Turkic Moslems of Xinjiang are most conspicuous because their customs, languages and ways of life differ greatly from the Han majority. These three minority nationalities inhabit vast border regions of the country, regions which are strategically sensitive, rich in mineral resources and economically undeveloped. For the most part they are nomadic herdsmen or subsistent farmers occupying the wide plains, inland basins and rarified plateaux of ...