China
- Created by: MiaT212
- Created on: 10-02-19 11:43
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- China
- Location
- Northern Hemi-sphere
- Asia
- Neighbours: Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, North Korea
- Features
- Human
- The Great Wall of China - 5500 miles long built around 200 bc
- Ming Tombs - 13 emperors are buried there
- Forbidden City, Beijing
- Physical
- Yantze River
- Huang He
- Himalayas
- Gobi Desert
- Plateau of Tibet
- Human
- Population
- 1.368 billion people currently
- 94% of the population located in the east coast
- 6% located in the west
- Shanghai, Jiangsu, Beijing and Tjanjin are all heavily populated and located along the east coast
- One Child Policy
- Advantages
- Reduced number of births
- Reduced pressure on food and energy resourses
- 400 million births were prevented the government couldn't have supported
- More females in higher eductaion
- With one child, parents would get 'bonuses'
- Reduced number of births
- Dis-advantages
- suicide rates have risen due to pressure families put on their only child
- Gender imbalance leads to female human trafficking
- With ultra-sound, the abortion of female babies has risen dramatically
- They have less young people than old
- WHY?
- By 1963, the average number of children per women was 7.5. The population grew by 14 million each year.
- However, only 7 % of the world's farm land was from China - lead to poverty and famine.
- By 1963, the average number of children per women was 7.5. The population grew by 14 million each year.
- Advantages
- How is China linked to the rest of this world?
- Manufactures phones, toys, tea, makeup
- Higher population means more people working in factories.
- Get paid less, so more profit for the company
- Higher population means more people working in factories.
- Fox Conn
- Apple uses Fox Conn to make it's products
- It has massive blocks of flats with 30 people per room.
- Suicide nets at the bottom of the flats to prevent suicide
- 12 hour shifts doing the exavt same thing
- It has massive blocks of flats with 30 people per room.
- Apple uses Fox Conn to make it's products
- Manufactures phones, toys, tea, makeup
- 3 Gorges Dam
- 2,309m long. The reservoir is 600km in length. 1.24 people relocated
- Postives
- Tourists = money. The power is sustainable. The building created thousands of jobs.
- The dam helped reduce carbon emission. Can withstand 7.0 earthquake. World's most productive hydroelectric dam
- Negatives
- 100 towns submerged. Deforestation. Factories, mines, hospitals are flooded and pollute the water
- Postives
- 2,309m long. The reservoir is 600km in length. 1.24 people relocated
- Hutongs
- In Beijing, hutongs are alleys with traditional courtyard residences.
- Has electricity but no water. Communal washroom.
- Very community oriented
- Has electricity but no water. Communal washroom.
- In Beijing, hutongs are alleys with traditional courtyard residences.
- Location
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