China has a varied and complicated topography. It has low, flat and wide plains, gently undulating hilly areas, mountainous regions with towering peaks, high and vast plateaus and bowl-shaped basins. Generally speaking, China has more mountainous regions than flat ones. Mountainous areas make up about two-thirds of the country’s land area, while the flats are less than one third. Regions higher than 500m cover about 3/4 of the national land area (among which regions higher than 3000m make up 26%), and regions lower than 500m account for 1/4. China’s land slopes from west to east and can be divided into three zones. The first zone is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which has an average altitude around 3 000 to 5 000m. The second zone has a mean altitude ranging from 1 000 to 2 000m, including the Inner Mongolia, Loess and Yunnan-Guizhou plateaus, and the Tarim, Junggar, Sichuan and other basins which dot the plateaus. East of the mountains Da Xing’anling，Taihang, WuShan, and Snow Peak, t...
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