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Table of contents.

– Introduction
– China Tectonics
– Characteristics and Mechanisms of Chinese Continental Tectonics
– Plate Tectonics of China
– The collision between the Indian subcontinent and the Eurasian continent
– Seismic Tomography Imaging of China Deep Structure
– References

Horizontal velocity field in continental China, derived from global positioning system (GPS) data, with respect to stable Eurasia plate. Blue and black arrows are data from the Crustal Motion Observation Network of China (CMONOC) and non-CMONOC networks, respectively.

China is located in one of the most complicated tectonic areas in the world. Three Precambrian cratons (Sino-Korean, Tarim, Yangtze-Cathaysian) and the intervening Paleozoic accretionary and collisional folded belts (The Huanan Caledonides, Ogchean belt, The Tan-Lu fault, Honam fault) constitute the tectonic backbone of China.
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