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||  81st out of 177, score of .777 || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> $5,300 PER CAPITA. || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Farming, mining, forestry, fishing, fishery || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Factory workers (popular) - such as automobile, clothing, ect.; transportation of materials to factories or businesses via railroad trucks; manufacturing of all goods (medicines, plastics, furniture, ect.) steel production/manufacturing. || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> - INCREASING. Teaching, utility management, government jobs, retail salesmen, involvement with business/finance trade, construction jobs || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Iron, coking oil, rare metals necessary for the aerospace and electronics industries, plywood aluminum foil (nails, metals in general). COAL. || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> 25 percent of the world's (children) Toys, 30 percent of the world's suitcases and handbags, 51 percent of the worlds microwaves, 60 percent of the world's bicycles. Also, office and heating appliances, shoes, grain and non-staple food, Chinese and western medicines, herbs, and clothing. || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Education in China --> Ministry of Education. -The education system provides free primary education for six years starting at age seven or six, followed by six years of secondary education for ages 12 to 18. -There are three years of middle school and three years of high school. -99 percent attendance rate for primary school and an 80 percent rate for both primary and middle schools. -Free higher education was abolished in 1985 -Private schools been allowed since the early 1980s. -The population average of 6.2 years of schooling- in 2000 about 9 year average || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">** Total population ** : 90.9%. **Male**: 95.1%. **Female**: 86.5% || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">** total population ** : 72.88 years. **Male**: 71.13 years. **Female**: 74.82 years ||
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 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">**__Education__**
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|| <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">** Total ** : 22.12 deaths/1,000 live births. **Male**: 20.01 deaths/1,000 live **Female**: 24.47 deaths/1,000 live births || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">0.606% || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">13.45 births/1,000 population || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> -China ’s GDI value, 0.765 is compared to its HDI value of 0.768. -Its GDI value is 99.6% of its HDI value, this is good. -There is a high literacy rate in both genders, women treated for the most part equal. -spousal abuse is too common, somewhat socially acceptable- -Women's salaries have been found to average 77% of men's -Most women employed in low-skill and low-paying jobs. -downsizing in factors; laid off many; mostly women -Women are about 60% of the unemployed. -Less rural girls are being sent to school, parents say its a waste of money -70% of illiterates in China are female. -Chinese Constitution and other laws provide equal rights for men and women in all of life, including ownership of property, inheritance and educational opportunities. ||
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|| <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Cottage industry, (mainly in agriculture); defense industry; Railway industry; Delivery industry (things like FedEx); International Air industries, Metallurgical industries. || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Labor which entails low wages but enough work to be sucessful -->may be found in rural areas because people are more in need for money -Lands that is accessbile to raw materials -Amount of money needed to invest in factory may be easier in less idustrialized areas, rural areas may work for lower wages-again they are in need of money more than those living in cities (for the most part) - || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">-Industries should locate near southeast coast, which brings access to trade through seas. -China has extreme rural and extreme industrialization occurring- -->location near industrialized cities is smart, also easy transportation compared to more transportation needed in the rural areas of China. -However, land acessible to raw materials (coal mines in China) -water and ports in southeast Asia -the Yangtze and Yellow<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> river, Lake Poyang, ect. || =<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> =
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">**__Types of Industry found in the country__**
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=<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Resources = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> -Oil pipelines were installed in China and improved ports handling oil tankers- in1970’s. -Natural gases are not an important resource. -Depends a lot on imports due to low amounts of raw materials located inside China’s boundaries. -75.6% coal; 13.5% crude oil; 3% Natural Gas; 7.9% hydro-power. -Starting to use solar/wind power. || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> -Total energy consumption-  ** 1985 **  : 8.1% to  ** 2004 **  : 15.2%. -Unconstrained expansion of energy -Intensive industries creates greater dependence on imported oil and dirty coal -Environmental problems get worse and more expensive to fix/address longer they are unresolved. -Heavy industry and urbanization that requires lots or inputs of energy -Almost all from coal, the most readily available, the dirtiest source || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> -China’s coal-fired power plants causes acid rain on Seoul, South Korea, & Tokyo -Pollution over Los Angeles originates in China -Health care costs have rose alot (pollution causing sickness in China) -Severe water shortages could turn more farmland into desert -Many thought China might overtake the United States as the world’s leading producer of greenhouse gases by 2010 -->International Energy Agency said China could become the emissions leader by the end of this year -->The Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency said China had already passed that level. -Only 1 percent of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe by the European union -Pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death -Air pollution alone blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year -About 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> -China ’s leaders recognize change is necessary -China says they'll use a new model that allows steady growth but protects the environment. -In a speech Prime Minister of China made 48 references to “environment,” “pollution” or “environmental protection.” -Different campaigns have started to close illegal coal mines and shut down a few heavy polluting factories Major -Initiatives are beginning to develop clean energy sources like solar and wind power The project, known as “Green G.D.P.,” was an effort to create an environmental measure for evaluating the performance of every official in China. --> -->It recalculated gross domestic product, or G.D.P., to reflect the cost of pollution. **(Unfortunately this project collapsed this year) ||
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You are to look at three other countries reports as well. You are to compare those countries (generally) to yours. Within your analyses you need to point out three major differences and similarities between your country and the one you are analyzing. Throughout the globe there are both more and less developed countries due to various factors. There is not one country, however, that does not share similar traits with another country. When I compare China to other countries such as India, Spain, and Columbia I see both similarities and differences. With India, China shares a similar pollution problem- pollution of waters. Both countries use coal as their main source of energy, and both have industries that constantly dump wastes into their waters. However, I see India doing much more to fix their pollution problem. While China continues to build industries and pollute their environment and “says” they need change, India is making the change. They do this by using things like particulate scrubbers in smokestacks, air filters, and dust and fume extraction, and also rebuilding sewers to lead to new locations. China has overcome their first step-admitting they have a problem but are not doing much about it. Two other similarities is the fact that both countries have a large rural area, in other words much of the population partakes in agriculture (esp. farming rice). In addition both have large populations, access to trade through waters, and multinational countries that are investing in them because they know China and India are becoming more and more developed. However two differences I see include the dependence on natural occurrences such as monsoon rains. India depends on this for successful agriculture; however China can feel somewhat more secure. In addition China’s literacy and life expectancy is higher than India’s. This shows both health and education must be better, and in general China’s development surpasses India’s. Next is a comparison with Spain. First off Spain and China are different in the sense that Spain has a large tourist industry. China is not really known as a “vacation spot” and therefore lacks in that industry. Spain on the other hand has strong cultural tourism sites and works that help bring profit. Spain and China are similar in agriculture. Spain is the biggest agricultural state in Europe. Similarly, rural China—which makes up a lot of China—is big on agriculture of things like rice. Both have high amounts of farming and agriculture compared to countries likes the US. Yet again, China and Spain both share the problems of high percentages of water pollution due to the disposal of raw sewage and the disposal of waste from offshore production of oil and gas. IN both countries this needs to be fixed. China and Spain are different in the kind of labor. Spain is much more service ( Tertiary ) jobs then manufacturing (secondary). However, China is much more manufacturing of consumer goods in factories. There is definitely a difference in the types of jobs present through sectors. Lastly, $5,300 per capita at a 81st rank in HDI for China compared to a 13th HDI rank and $33,700 per capita for Spain. Spain is Europe’s fifth largest electricity market and does not depend on coal like China does. This in more general terms speaks for itself by saying Spain is a more developed than China. A final similarity is that China and Spain both have high literacy rates. They both have strong education for their youth that is improving. The education is public and usually up till the ages of 16-18. Lastly I compared China and Ethiopia. Ethiopia in education is much further behind China. Ethiopia has a literacy rate of only 42.7% while china has one of 97%! There is rising education in Ethiopia but student teacher ratios are extremely high compared to China. In addition Ethiopia uses primarily hydroelectric (83%) while China depends mostly on coal ( 75.6%). China and Ethiopia differ in border conflict. China has for the most part not much fighting over borders; however, Ethiopia has violent border conflict with Somalia. This is common in Africa, not in China. Similarities shown is in regard of women. Not completely, Ethiopia is a much worse situation. However, both have spousal abuse (to different extents) and problems with women being less educated and employed than men. (Like I said China’s situation is much less than Ethiopia’s but is a general observation). Both countries have similar primary jobs such as farming, mining, fishing, livestock rising, and forestry jobs. Lastly, both countries have rural areas in which agriculture has a main crop. For China it is rice, and for Ethiopia it is sugar.

TWO PARAGRAPHS ABOUT CHINA INDIVIDUALLY-- China in a classroom full of countries is what one calls a mediocre kid. They are not suffering from poverty begging for loans from more developed countries. BUT they are not at the top; from pollution to overpopulation China is still working its way up the development latter. First off, China’s GDI and HDI values are relatively close, only a .003 difference. China’s women are generally treated equal- a big indicator of high development. However, spouse abuse is too common against women and 70% of illiterates in China are female. China’s education is pretty good. With a 99% attendance rate the education system provides free primary education for six years. This is SO important. With education come new ideas to improve, shape, and rebuild China’s economy, and overall development. With a 0.606% natural increase rate, China is definitely moving along in the demographic transition. They really cannot afford their population to rise because they are already overpopulated. China stands 81st out of 177 countries in the Human Development index. That tells you China is better than half the countries out there. However I do think China stance is not quite as it could be due to pollution. Hopefully with China’s rising development, they can find a way to fix pollution without affecting their development. This will not be easy but it MUST be done. Overall China stands pretty well in the world. They have both success and maybe deterrence in development coming. Many see China as a future leader. Without time machines, one can only take the given information and seek trends that could help to predict what will happen in 50 years. I believe both good and bad will come in China’s future. First off China is developing. They are going through an industrialization era and are the suppliers of consumer goods to many countries. Many are investing in China for reasons like these, which help to contribute to development. China is changing. They have many rural areas in which poor farmers make a living, but more and more cities and industries are arising—providing more jobs as well. However, and a BIG however, there are some problems. China could literally choke on its own development because of extreme pollution. China’s pollution shows no signs of stopping. With use of the dirtiest source of energy—coal—China surpassed the US THIS YEAR in the world’s leader in carbon emissions. This was not supposed to happen until 2110. So what will happen in the next ten years? Because China is not only affecting their own country they are affecting the world. Acid rain falls on Los Angeles originating in CHINA. China dumps wastes into water, making drinking water slowly and slowly less available for its citizens. Only 1 percent of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe by the European Union. China’s health is deteriorating--pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death, and air pollution alone is blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. On bad days, doctors suggest staying indoors due to excessive smog. A change must be made or China’s rising development and success will fall for sure. Factories are what MAKES China, if they have to shut down for pollution what will China have? Lastly, China must find better energy sources. Not just because of pollution. Instead, because they are relying on outside sources, they were not exactly gifted with plentiful supplies of raw materials. They need to use things like windmills and solar energy for efficiency, environmental protection, and less reliance on others for energy sources. Lastly, Great Britain, US, and other countries went through industrialization and development earlier than China. However we did not have to worry about pollution till AFTER we were developed. China, however, must go through what we went through with that on their shoulders. They must worry NOW not after they achieve economic development.