China being one of the world's oldest civilizations, dating back more than six millennia, could provide some exciting locations. China stretches some 3,100 miles across East Asia with a diverse landscape ranging from mostly plateaus and mountains in the west; to lower lands plains and deltas in the east.
The country has been described as a staircase with three steps, descending from west to east. In the west is the icy plateau of Tibet, high in the towering Himalayas. Called "the roof of the world," the mountains are home to Mount Everest, the world's highest peak (8,848 metres). Central China consists of smaller mountains and foothills, deserts, salt lakes and the dry grasslands south of Mongolia. Western China descends into the low river plains that are the country's fertile heartland and the traditional home of the Han people, often called the Middle Kingdom. Great rivers such as the Chang Jing (Yangtze) and Huang He (Yellow) irrigate the region, which contains most of the country's population and cities, including Beijing.
The climate of China is as diverse as it's landscape; subtropical in the south to subarctic in the north. The far north experiences bitterly cold winters (-40°F) and hot summers (100°F); central China receives a somewhat milder version of the same weather. Southeastern China has a subtropical climate, in which hot, humid summers coincide with a rainy season that sometimes brings typhoons.
Although much land has been deforested for industry, northeast China still has large tracts of forest, while further south are rainforests and important medicinal plants such as ginseng, angelica and fritillary. Wildlife includes herds of wild elephants in the south, reindeer, musk deer and tigers in the northeast, and snow leopards and wild yaks in the western highlands. Cranes, bustards egrets, swans and herons live around the country's lakes. Like China's symbol, the panda, most of these animals are threatened by the growing human population.
A reiable source has revealed to SurvivorSkills that the production for Survivor 15 will be based in the Jinagxi Province of Mainland China. The filming locales, and base camp should be around 40 km (24 miles) from the capital of Nanchang.
Jiangxi is a southern province of the People's Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south.
Mountains surround Jiangxi on three sides, with the Mufu Mountains, Jiuling Mountains, and Luoxiao Mountains on the west; Huaiyu Mountains and Wuyi Mountains on the east; and the Jiulian Mountains and Dayu Mountains in the south. The southern half of the province is hilly with ranges and valleys interspersed; while the northern half is flatter and lower in altitude. The highest point in Jiangxi is Mount Huanggang in the Wuyi Mountains, on the border with Fujian. It has an altitude of 2157 m.
Jiangxi's climate is subtropical. Average temperatures are about 40°F in January and 84°F in July. Annual precipitation is 47 to 74 in.
The Gan River dominates the province, flowing through the entire length of the province from south to north. It enters Lake Poyang in the north, the largest freshwater lake of China; that lake in turn empties into the Yangtze River, which forms part of the northern border of Jiangxi. Important reservoirs include the Xiushui Tuolin Reservoir in the northwest of the province on the Xiushui River, and the Wan'an Reservoir in the upper section of the Gan.
Lake Poyang, the largest freshwater lake in China, is 105 miles long from north to south. The furthest width is 46 miles, mean width 10 miles from west to east. The lakeshore is 750 miles long, and has a surface area of 2040 miles.
Poyang Lake provides habitat for a half million migratory birds, and is a favorite destination for birding. During the winter, the lake becomes the home of White Cranes. It is here where the biggest group of white cranes was found in the world. The total number of wintering populations was above 4,000 in 2002, accounting for more than 95% of total of white crane in the world. This is why Poyang Lake comes to be known as "the world of white cranes" and "the kingdom of rare birds".
The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America. The river is about 3860 miles long and flows from its source in Qinghai Province in Tibet, eastwards into the East China Sea at Shanghai.
With its numerous tributaries and feeders, the Yangtze provides a great transportation network through the heart of some of the most densely populated and economically important areas in China. Among the principal cities on the Yangtze, in addition to those cited in the foregoing, are Wuchang, Nanjing, Hanyang, and Anqing (An-ch'ing). Jiangsu Province, largely a deltaic plain consisting of silt deposited by the Yangtze (more than 170 million cu m/6 billion cu ft annually), is one of the chief rice-growing areas of China.
Although the entire river is known as the Yangtze River to foreigners, the Chinese apply that designation only to the last 480 or 645 km (300 or 400 mi) of its course, the portion traversing the region identified with the Yang kingdom (flourished about 10th century BC). From Its upper reaches to Yibin, the river is called the Jinsha River (Golden Sand) and various other names are applied in the provinces it traverses. The official name for the entire river is Chang Jiang ("Long River) or Yangtze River.
The Flag of China is red with a large yellow five-pointed star and four smaller yellow five-pointed stars (arranged in a vertical arc toward the middle of the flag) in the upper hoist-side corner.
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