CMYK color profiles for China

I am using CS2 Indesign and Photoshop 7 on a PC. I have to prepare color
photos for a printer located in China. They want all images to be CMYK
.tiff.
I now have an assortment of about 100 images from various sources around the
world, there are .tif, .jpg. .bmp, and .psd. All of them appear to be RGB.
There are images with: 1) no color profile, 2) sRGB IE60966-2.1, and Adobe
RGB 1998.
I have been converting these to .tif (and using one dpi/pixel resolution for
all images).
Do I just select/save as color mode CMYK? Or are there special
settings/profiles I need to know about for China? My Chinese language
skills are way, way far worse than the printer's English skills. I was
hoping that someone in this group would be familiar with RGB to CMYK for
foreign printers.
Thanks

Sorry for the confusion -- I meant "one" not in the number one -- but I mean
that I am using the same resolution for all images. "One" in this case was
to mean: "singular."
I was wondering if there was a commonly accepted CYMK color profile that is
preferred by book printers in China.

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