China lies
mainly under in the northern temperate zone under the influence of monsoon.
From September and October to March and April next year, monsoons will blow from
Siberia and the Mongolia Plateau into China, decreasing in force as it goes
southward. This will create dry and cold winter in the country and a temperature
difference of 40 degree centigrade between the north and south.
In the winter, the temperature is 5 to 18 degree centigrade lower than that in
other countries on the same latitude. Monsoon blows into China from the ocean in
summer, bringing with them warm and wet currents, thus rain. Great differences
in climate are found from region to region owing to China's extensive territory
and complex topography.
The northern part of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China
has no summer, Hainan Island has a long summer but no winter; the Huaihe River
valley features four distinct seasons; the western part of the Qinghai-Tibet
Plateau is covered by snow all year round; the southern part of the
Yunan-Guizhou Plateau is spring-like all the year; and the northwestern inland
region sees a great drop of temperature in the day. Annual precipitation also
varies greatly from region to region; it is as high as 1,500 millimeters along
the southeastern coast. Decreasing landward, it is less than 50 millimeters in
northwest China.
In the winter, the temperature is 5 to 18 degree centigrade lower than that in
other countries on the same latitude. Monsoon blows into China from the ocean in
summer, bringing with them warm and wet currents, thus rain. Great differences
in climate are found from region to region owing to China's extensive territory
and complex topography. 