The People's Republic of China has a population density of about 135 inhabitants per square kilometer. That this figure is not very large, mainly due to the fact that some western China a very low population numbers on a large territory respectively; this territory because of the climate may not be very many people. In Tibet, the most sparsely populated part of the country, living on one square kilometer on average, only two people.

By far the largest proportion of the population lives in coastal regions, especially in the east of the country. There are the big cities. Approximately 115 million people, or nearly 10 percent of China's population, concentrated in an area of only 50,000 kilometers 2. About half of the population lives on 10 percent of the area, representing a population density of 740 persons per square kilometer is, and 90 percent of the population live on one third of the national territory, which means that 90 percent of the population live in areas, with an average of 350 inh / km 2 as densely populated as Europe's most densely populated countries.