Kammala wannan magana: A shekara ta 221 kafin haihuwar Yesu, Qin Shi Huang ya ci nasara a kan jihohi daban-daban masu yaƙi kuma ya ƙirƙira wa kansa taken "Huangdi" ko "sarki" na Qin, wanda ke nuna farkon daular China. Koyaya, gwamnatin zalunci ta faɗi ba da daɗewa ba bayan mutuwarsa, kuma daular Han da ta daɗe (206 BC <unk> 220 AD) ta maye gurbin ta. Dauloli da suka biyo baya sun kafa tsarin hukuma wanda ya ba da damar sarki ya mallaki manyan yankuna kai tsaye. A cikin ƙarni 21 daga 206 BC har zuwa AD 1912, ayyukan gudanarwa na yau da kullun an kula da su ta hanyar ƙwararrun masanan "malamai". Ana zaɓan matasa maza da suka iya rubutu, tarihi, adabi, da kuma falsafa ta wurin gwaji mai wuya da gwamnati take yi. Daular daular karshe ta kasar Sin ita ce Qing (1644<unk>1912), wacce Jamhuriyar Sin ta maye gurbin ta a shekarar 1912, sannan a cikin babban yankin ta Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Sin a shekarar 1949. Jamhuriyar Sin ta koma tsibirin Taiwan a shekarar 1949. Dukansu PRC da ROC a halin yanzu suna da'awar cewa su ne kawai halattacciyar gwamnatin China, wanda ya haifar da rikici mai gudana ko da bayan Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta amince da PRC a matsayin gwamnatin da za ta wakilci China a duk taron Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a shekarar 1971. Hong Kong da Macau sun ba da ikon mallaka ga China a 1997 kuma
1999 daga Burtaniya da Portugal, sun zama yankuna na musamman na musamman (SARs) na PRC.