锦绣中华，阅不尽的大好河山；华夏文明，读不完的灿烂文化。尽管我们无时无刻不从大自然中索取，但人与自然的和谐一直是我们不断追求的目标。

　　The last hidden world-China

　　For centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapes and surprising creatures.Chinese civilization is the world's oldest and today it's largest with well over a billion people.It's home to more than 50 distinct ethnic(种族的) groups and a wide range of traditional life styles often enclose partnership with nature.We know that China faces many social and environmental problems but there is great beauty here too.China is home to the world's highest mountains, vast deserts，cold area, steaming forests harboring rare creatures，grassy plains beneath vast horizons and rich tropical seas.

　　Now, for the first time ever we can explore the whole of this great country, meet some of the surprising and exotic(异国的) creatures that live here and consider the relationship of the people and wildlife of China to the remarkable landscaping which they live.This is wild China.Our exploration of China begins in the warm subtropical (亚热带的)south.On the Li River fishermen and birds stand on bamboo rafts(木筏)．The partnership that goes back more than a thousand years.This scenery is known throughout the world，an everlasting topic in Chinese paintings and a major tourist attraction.

In a floodplain of the Yangtze River, black­tailed godwits(黑尾鹬) search in the mud for worms.But it isn't just wildlife that grow in this environment.The ground also provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass family­rice.The