APHG Project by Tyler Railey https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd China stufff en-us 2017-02-22 15:56:32 UTC 2023-02-12 10:03:38 UTC hello@padlet.com History of China - Elias ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155496101 Watch from 1:09 to 3:09 (2:00)]]> 2017-02-22 16:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155496101 Description of China's Economy - Elias ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155496763 China has the world's second largest economy by GDP. Until 2015, China had the fastest growing economy, now passed by Ethiopia. China is the largest manufacturing economy in the world and exports more goods than any other country. China is also the largest trading nation in the world.

]]> 2017-02-22 16:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155496763 How the Economy got to Where it is Today: -Elias ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155504846 China was one of the first developed countries, defined by an established government. China however faced many economic problems because the country had constant warfare between Chinese dynasties. China's economic reform of 1979 transformed China's economy to be a major economic world power.

Economic Reform: (1:24)]]> 2017-02-22 16:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155504846 ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155505920 2017-02-22 16:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155505920 ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155506604 2017-02-22 16:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/155506604 Population Pyramid ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156610237 Due to the previous one-child policy in China, the pyramid is symmetrical as a result of little gender selection. Two large population sections can be found in the 20's and 40's areas. (Emma)
https://populationpyramid.net/china/2016/]]> 2017-02-28 02:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156610237 Gender Related Development Index ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156611602
  • China is in the very high human development category with a GDI of 0.958. 
  • Females have a higher life expectancy (86.8 years) compared to males (81.2 years)
  • The expected years of schooling is almost equal (15.7 years for females and 15.5 years for males), but males have a higher average years of schooling with 11.9 years to females' 10.9 years
    • (Emma)
    ]]>     2017-02-28 02:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156611602     Literacy Rate ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156614761 Total population: 96.4%
    Male: 98.2%
    Female: 94.5% 
    (Emma)
    ]]>     2017-02-28 03:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156614761     ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156895701 2017-03-01 00:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156895701 Sources for Sectors of Ecomonmy: ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897303 https://www.internations.org/china-expats/guide/17875-economy-finance/china-s-economy-an-overview-17867]]> 2017-03-01 00:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897303 Primary Sector: Agriculture / Mining -Elias ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897513 34% of China's economy is based on the primary sector of the economy.

    China grows rice, wheat, corn, millet, soybeans, and tea, cotton, and tobacco. China also extracts many natural resources such as coal and oil. China also has a lot of natural gas, but they do not extract much of it. Agriculture makes up 10% of China's GDP and mining accounts for 1% of of it's GDP.]]>     2017-03-01 00:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897513     Secondary Sector: Industry -Elias ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897545 30% percent of China's economy is made up of secondary sector jobs.

    Steel production, metal working, and other heavy industry jobs make up most of the secondary sector of China. One issue with the industry sector of China is that it focuses on quantity of products rather than quality. Industry accounts for 44% of China's GDP.]]>     2017-03-01 00:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897545     Tertiary Sector: Services -Elias ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897581 Services make up 36% of China's Economy

    With the growing economy of China, its services sector of the economy is also growing and is now the biggest section in the economy. Most service jobs in China relate to industry, such as: shipping and logistics, managing products, technical support for factories / businesses, customer support, and more. There is also many service jobs in tourism, internet, telecommunications, and travel. Tertiary jobs make up for 46% of the China's GDP.
    ]]>     2017-03-01 00:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156897581     ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156903794 2017-03-01 01:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/156903794 GDP per capita! ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157004928 6,807.43 (2013)

    http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=CNhttp://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=CN

    (Tyler Railey)]]>     2017-03-01 13:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157004928     China's economic structure! ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157007030 China's economy has shown massive growth, averaging 10% GDP growth over the last 30 years. China's economy has also grown about 48 times (from $168.367 billion to $8.222 trillion).

    (Tyler Railey)]]>     2017-03-01 13:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157007030     ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157010298 2017-03-01 13:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157010298 Gender Empowerment Measure ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157504822 China is ranked #57 in the GEM. Women hold 20.3% of the seats in parliament, make up 17% of legislators, senior officials, and managers, and make up 52% of professional and technical workers. The ratio of estimated female to male earned income is 64 to 100. (Emma)]]> 2017-03-02 23:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157504822 Role of Women in Society ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157505174 China is ranked  close to the US in the Gender Equality  Ranking, meaning they have relatively the same ratios from men to women. However, the previous one child policy has put pressure on women to be more focus on child care while their spouses work in business. Currently, there is no specific "role" for women, but only a select few are involved in top tier occupations such as CEO or poljobs. (Emma)]]> 2017-03-02 23:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157505174 ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157506557 (Emma)]]> 2017-03-02 23:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157506557 ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157510463 2017-03-03 00:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157510463 China's accessibility to raw materials! ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157510642 China is currently able to access a group of products called rare earth minerals. These are used in cell phones, batteries, computer hard drives, light bulbs, & wind power turbines. 

    (Tyler Railey)]]>     2017-03-03 00:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157510642     China's Demographic Indicators of Development (Maddux) ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157513382 China's Life Expectancy: 75.5 years.
    China's NIR: 5.43
    China's Birth Rate: 12.4 
    China's IMR: 12.2 deaths/ 1000 live births

    China's longevity is average for all the countries at 75.5 years. The overall life expectancy around the entire globe is 68 years. China's infant mortality rate is at 12.2 deaths. The world average for IMR is resting at 49.4 deaths according to the United Nations. So China's overall health seems to be doing about average for all of the countries. It's especially hard to keep a country with 1,373,541,273 people healthy. They tried to slow down the population in 1979 by creating a "one child policy". They knew they were gonna struggle supplying for the overpopulation. But in 2015, China decided to remove that policy. ]]>     2017-03-03 01:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157513382     China's "model for development" (Maddux) ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157524607 China is one of few countries that believe in a communist lifestyle. Because of that, China has a self sufficient type of development. In a self sufficient government, money and lifestyles are rationed equally. They also create "barriers" to limit imports from countries. In saying that, China does export a lot of clothing, electronic equipment and machinery to countries like ours. They do import some valuable things like petroleum, circuits, iron ore, gold, and cars .]]> 2017-03-03 02:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157524607 Education ekw0716 https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157624813 Education in China revolves around a 9 year schooling process followed by college acceptance based on test scores. However, children originating from richer cities are more likely to go on to a better job, while students from poorer cities are more likely to work primary sector jobs later in life. ]]> 2017-03-03 14:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ekw0716/qjdnpra37zbd/wish/157624813