This other China has many mountain ranges, thousand kilometre long chains stretching from west to east dividing the land into enclosed plateaus and basins whose rivers never reach any sea.

中国的这一部分有许多山脉，一座又一座绵亘千里，由西向东伸展，把土地分隔成一个个山峦环抱的高原和盆地，其中河流一向不通大海。