| Return Additions Oroqen Monday, December 29, 2008 Oroqens -- one of China's least populous ethnic minorities GOV.cn China's Ethnic Minorities China officially registers 56 ethnic groups. The ethnic Chinese, known as the Han Chinese, compose 93 percent of the population. Han Chinese speak seven languages, with Mandarin or Putonghua - which means "common speech" -- being the official and most-used. Cantonese, which is spoken in Hong Kong and in China's other southern provinces, is the second most popular. Most of the 55 other ethnic groups use their own languages. China's minorities account for a small 7 percent of the entire population. They live along the country's borders and some of them live on both sides. Mannchu has a history more than 2,000 years. They mainly live in Liaoning and East 
| Menba settled in the high Mountain and seldom contacts the outside world 
| Tibetans and Han Chinese have been living together for thousand of years  |
Bai is a very old ethnic group in China. Dali of Yunnan is their capital.  | Dai is one of the largest minority groups in Yunnan 
|  Hezhe settles along Heilongjiang River and lives on fishing and hunting |
Mongolian led by Genghis Khan governed China and established Yuan Dynasty from 1846-1890. | Naxi migrated from Qing Hai to Yunnan a long time ago 
|  Nu settles in very remote area and lived in very poor cditions. |
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