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(My name is Logan Elam, I will be describing the story of a little girl from China and she will walk you through all of the aspects of her country) Hi! My name is Liu, and I will be introducing you to my wonderful country, China! We will going through China and exploring many details about our geography and culture. Below you can see our flag and our country

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China, though not being the largest country in the world, has the largest population in the world with a population of 1.4 billion! China is located in far eastern Asia. The capital of our country is Bejing.

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China isn't very hard to find. China is a fairly large country. It is located in South East Asia and west if Japan and has Korea connected to it. China's absolute location is 35.8617° N, 104.1954° E.

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Our country, like I said before, has the largest population in the world! Granted, that has created difficulties with carrying capacity and Physiological density. Our country has had to make anti-natalist policies in the past but those restrictions have loosened :). On the demographic transition model, our country has now made it into the stage 4! Some reasons you might want to come to China are a wide amount of jobs, especially within the secondary sector. Many industries are within China. Are country isn't perfect though, some people leave because they say our government has too much of a grip on its citizens and some markets. The overpopulation has made residency also hard to come by, as most land is already taken. If someone looked at a population pyramid of our country they would probably see a very sporadic pyramid with jumps leading to a large population in older working class and a new boom in teenager to young adult now.

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The primary language spoken through China is Mandarin, within the Chinese language family respectively . Many other languages are spoken throughout China such as Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou).

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Many religions are believed and worshiped within China. Though, the primary religions believed by the most people in China are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism.

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It is hard to talk about Chinas ethnicities because of just how many are in China!! With 41 varying ethnicities all having their own history, I would have to take up this whole project to just talk about each! Some examples of these ethnicities are the Han Chinese, Zhuang people, Hui people, Tibetan people, esc. All of these ethnicities relate to different areas of China.

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When talking about China's political geography there are many things to consider. First, many say the the actual country is similar to the shape of a rooster. A conflict that happened in china was a civil war not long after the end of World War 2. Many changes to China have occoured to change the border and what areas lie within such as this event on 13 October 1949, Xinjiang was annexed by the People's Republic of China. China might not be the friendliest, having disputes with Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Singapore, Brunei, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar and Tibet. Chinas gpvernment also has a lot of labels, being called a republic, unitary state, socialist state, communist state, and a one party state.

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1. Tsai, Kath, et al. “Top 25 Most Popular Chinese Foods (in China).” Chef's Pencil, 12 Jan. 2022, https://www.chefspencil.com/most-popular-chinese-foods/.
2. https://www.ibisworld.com/china/industry-trends/biggest-industries-by-revenue/
3. National Human Development Report 2019: China, https://hdr.undp.org/en/content/national-human-development-report-2019-china.
4. “Gender Discrimination at Work Is Dragging China's Growth.” PIIE, 6 Jan. 2021, https://www.piie.com/blogs/china-economic-watch/gender-discrimination-work-dragging-chinas-growth.
5. “What Are the 5 Most Popular Sports in China? - STATSCORE - News Center.” STATSCORE, 8 Dec. 2020, https://blog.statscore.com/what-are-the-5-most-popular-sports-in-china/.
6. 中华人民共和国外交部, https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cggb/eng/gyzg/jbgq/t216954.htm#:~:text=China%20has%20a%20climate%20dominated,latitude%20are%20warm%20and%20moist.
7. “Take Online Courses. Earn College Credit. Research Schools, Degrees & Careers.” Study.com | Take Online Courses. Earn College Credit. Research Schools, Degrees & Careers, https://study.com/academy/lesson/farming-in-ancient-china-lesson-for-kids.html.
8. Home - Global Yield Gap Atlas, https://www.yieldgap.org/web/guest/home#:~:text=Rice%2C%20maize%20and%20wheat%20are,et%20al.%2C%202011).
9. “The Current Situation in China.” United States Institute of Peace, 18 Nov. 2020, https://www.usip.org/publications/2020/11/current-situation-china.
10. “Timeline: U.S. Relations with China 1949–2022.” Council on Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-relations-china.

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China's agriculture provides plenty of food that is a favorite of a lot of locals. Some of these foods include dumplings, proper street kabobs, spicy crayfish, and plenty more. China mainly uses crop rotation for their agriculture and their primary agriculture crops are rice, maize and wheat. China's seasons are very prominant as stated by this exerpt from an article, " China has a climate dominated by dry seasons and wet monsoons, which make for clear temperature differences in winter and summer."

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China has several World cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. China has even more megacities than that though counting around 6. Those being, Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. These cities, especially the world cities like Beijing, are major centers for trade and transportation and provide a lot of services for the citizens that live within. I live in Shanghai, and I love it here! Though it can be a bit cramped.

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China has many multinational corporations that originate there as stated in this excerpt, "Lastly, many Chinese multinationals are also growing rapidly. Examples include DJI Innovations, Haier, Lenovo, Huawei, Datang Telecom, and electric car-maker NIO. Lenovo is a good example of a healthy and significant Chinese multinational". China also has the The Chinese Super League (CSL), a premier football league in China.

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As stated in the begining of this story, China has had some issues with population control and having access to land for its citizens. Urban sustainability has been struggling along side it, or should I say because of it. Due to the demand of needed housing in China, Urban sprawl has been rampant and out of control as cities continue to expand for more construction of more shelter.

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China isn't the most developed country in the world but it is definitely up there. This excerpt describes the gender inequality and how it is not that bad, "Women's labor power participation rate was 63.9 percent (compared to 78.3 percent for men), and women held 23.6 percent of seats in the National People's Congress. In 2019, China ranked 39 out of the 162 countries surveyed during the year." That's good for me in the future :). In 2019, China's HDI score was .761. This puts China in 85 out of 189 countries. China is also known as a Semi-periphery country because china is known for being a large manufacturing and trade country.

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Many jobs are presented in China but the industries that are most popular primarily due to their pay are Real Estate, Online Shopping, Bridge, Tunnel and Subway Construction, Software Development, Steel Rolling, and Engineering Services.

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In sum, I think that China is amazing! There are so many jobs and opportunities here! Our country is safe and, if you do your work, and you do it well, it won't be hard to find a place to live. Our country is more equally gender balanced than a lot of countries. We also have a lot of food grown here that makes purchasing cheaper as well as having a large secondary sector industry meaning most items you will buy even in other countries was made here! There are also many historical monuments to visit such as the great wall of China!

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China is really bad when it comes to hurting the environment. We are the worst polluter of mercury and have illegal wildfire trafficking. Our country mismanages plastic a lot causing a lot of waste to come from us. We also are a large producer of greenhouse gasses similar to most countries around the world.

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As stated by this BBC article (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61461099), this is a recent event in China, "China's jobless rate rose to 6.1% in April, the highest level since the 6.2% peak seen in the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020."

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In the clearest timetable yet, Deputy Mayor Zong Ming said the reopening of the financial, manufacturing and trading hub would be carried out in stages, with movement curbs largely to remain in place until 21 May to prevent an increase of infections, before a gradual easing.

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Shanghai lockdown: China unemployment rate near pandemic peak

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In the clearest timetable yet, Deputy Mayor Zong Ming said the reopening of the financial, manufacturing and trading hub would be carried out in stages, with movement curbs largely to remain in place until 21 May to prevent an increase of infections, before a gradual easing.