Republic of India in the Indian subcontinent, an area of about 300 million square kilometers, a population of about 1,027,000,000 (as of March 31, 2001). New Delhi, a population of about 11 million.
India is a multi-ethnic country, with Hindustan family (of the total population, 46.3%), Tai Lu solid group (8.6%), Bengali (7.7%), Maratha group (7.6%), Thailand Mill race (7.4%), more than 10 large national, while dozens of smaller ethnic groups.
Indian peoples have different languages, national languages recognized by the Constitution of India has 15 species, a national official language is Hindi and English 2 species. Provisions of the Constitution of India has been allowed to retain English as the official language to January 26, 1965, the subsequent abolition of the status of the official languages of English, retaining only Hindi is the official language, but the South Indian and other non-Hindi regions strongly resisted, India lower house of parliament had to amend the official language of the Bill, allowing English to continue as official languages.
Indian society is a multi-religious society, the world's major religions in India has its believers. The seventies of the twentieth century, according to statistics, the population share of the major religions are: Hindu 82.7%, Muslim 11.2%, Sikhs 1.89%, Buddhist 0.7%, 0.47% Jains, 0.4 Persian Magians %.
India's caste system is a feudal hierarchy of society, closely linked with the Hindu teachings. Were four castes: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra. In the four castes, there are known as "untouchables" or "untouchable" people. According to the Indian Constitution, the caste system in name has been abolished through law, but so far, in fact, still India's political, economic and social aspects play a role.

Since 1991, India introduced economic reforms and rapid economic growth in recent years, gross domestic product (GDP) annual growth rate of 4 - 6%. 2000--01 financial year, India's national total 459.8 billion U.S. dollars GDP per capita GDP of about $ 450. According to statistics, in 2001 - 02 financial year, total grain output reached 209 million tons in India, not only Zijiyouyu, and inventories are increasing.
India's three major industries in the national economy plays an important role in both the three industries accounted for the proportion of the national economy (in 1999 - 2000 financial year) are as follows: 29% of the primary industry, secondary industry accounted for 24% in the first three industries accounted for 47%. India's six major basic industries for the oil industry, petrochemical, coal, electricity, cement and steel.
2001 - 02 financial year, India's total import and export of $ 94,652,000,000, of which exports 43.998 billion U.S. dollars, down 0.08%; imports 50.654 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 1.08%. Trade deficit of $ 6,655,000,000, compared with $ 6,078,000,000 for fiscal year increased slightly. Use of foreign exchange in India's imports, oil imports accounted for about 1 / 3, India 67% oil consumer demand need to rely on imports.
Stable development of Sino-Indian trade in recent years. The bilateral trade volume in 1991 was only 256 million, to