Abstract: 1506 Chinese Korean and Han children at 4-7 years of age were investigated on their physical development. The average stature of the children of Korean was shorter than that of Han nationality. Five measurements show that the Korean children is relatively of dumpy type and Han children tall-thin (lanky) type. Results of correlation analysis on the stature of Korean and Han children with their parents show that there exists significant correlation(P<0.05-0.001). It seemed to be that the body measurements are related with race inheritance.

Key words: Children; Physical development; Population genetics; Body measurements; Korean; Han