China

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China

• By Khalil DePlanter
• Jeremy Ferrer
• Andrea Aguilar

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Geography and Climate of China

• China is located in Eastern Asia, bordering the
  East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South
  China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
• The latitude and longitude of China is 35.00N,
  105.00E
• China is mostly mountains, high plateaus, and
  deserts in the west.
• The lowest point of China is Turpan Pendi at
  -154m
• The highest point is Mount Everest at 8,850m
• Climate is extremely diverse tropical in south
  to sub arctic is north
• Capital city is Beijing

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Tourist Attractions in China

• The Great Wall of China

• The Temple of Heaven

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Population Information

• Population is 1,343,239,923
• Growth rate of China is .481
• Morality Rate 36 Deaths / 100,000 live births
• Infant Mortality rate 15.62 deaths / 1,000 live
  births
• 17.6 under 18
• 73.6 over 18
• 3-4 Daoist, Buddhist, Christian
• 1-2 Muslim
• 91.5 Han Chinese
• 8.5 Other Nationalities

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Chinas Ethnicity graph
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Facts on China

• The Chinese military is the largest standing
  military in the world.
• The demographics pose more job opportunities
• Produces the most hardware in the world

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Early Governments of China

• Started in dynastic rule
• 24 dynasties in total
• Dynastic rule started with the Xia Dynasty
• Dynastic rule ended with Qing Dynasty in 1912
• Nationalist party founded in 1912 by Sun Yatsen
• Kuomintang(Chinese Nationalists) fell in 1949

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Communism in China

• Communism sparked in China in 1949
• Maoism, was Chinas variation of communism
• Maoism was similar to Marxism
• Based on Mao Zedongs beliefs
• Maoism ended in 1976 but China remains communist

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Revolutions in China

• Cultural revolution in China
• Revolution caused by Dissatisfied feeling with
  Chinas new direction
• Mao in response to revolution launched massive
  political attack
• Revolution caused Maos wife to launch media
  campaign against him
• Mao was blamed for disorder and stripped of
  official position

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Major Industries

• Diverse economic sectors, reformed State-Owned
  enterprises
• Power Industry, China is worlds second in
  generated electricity
• Manufacturing/Automobiles, China was at the top
  in the 1990s
• Worlds largest producer in Iron and Steel
• Toy Industry alone brought in 10 billion US
  Dollars

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Chinas industrialized state

• China isnt fully developed but is quickly
  getting there
• China at this moment is poor compared to high GDP
  countries
• Theyre growing fast but the high population is
  holding them back
• Chinas GDP was 8,400 per capita in 2011

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Imperialism in China

• Many countries were trying to colonize China
• All these colonizers led to the Opium wars
• China was just slowed from developing due to
  colonization
• China isnt suffering too bad from it now

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Chinas Rise

• The peoples republic of China helped unite them
• Chinese made an effort to graft western
  technology into China
• Effort was known as the Self-Strengthening
  Movement

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China during World War I

• The Chinese we allied with the Allies during the
  war
• Before the war they were with the Central Powers
• China declared war on Germany to mainly gain
  recognition and power
• Chinese assisted on the Western Front but didnt
  do any actual fighting
• 10,000 Chinese dead at the end of WWI

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Years during World War I

• 1914, Primary government falls
• 1915, Yuan Shikan excepted the Twenty-One Demands
  issued by Japan
• Citizens took Yuan becoming emperor as a joke
• 1916, Yuan abandoned emperor plans and died June
  6, 1916
• August 1916 Sun Yatsen was back in China making
  speeches
• 1917, China declared war on Germany
• 1918, Beijing government signed secret deal with
  Japan accepting their claim to Shandong

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China in World War II

• China was with the Allied Powers
• China was invaded by Japanese in 1931
• Chiang Kai Shek attempted to resist Japanese in
  Singapore but failed

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In China 1939-1945

• 1939, China are attempting to resist Japanese
  forces
• 1940, Japan takes Hong Kong peninsula
• 1941, China breaks relationships with Germany and
  Italy
• 1942, Singapore falls to Japan, Chinese defeated
  in Kinhwa
• 1943, Chinese launch counter-offensive and retake
  Changteh
• 1944, Chinese forces slowly retake their
  territory
• 1945, Chinese forces push Japanese all the way
  back

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Cold War in China

• China was allied with the USSR
• China had nuclear weapons and they were installed
• Chinese Communists under Mao proclaimed the birth
  of the peoples republic
• Chaing-Kai-Shek and Chinese Nationalist forced to
  flee

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Chinas Influence

• China was supported by the Soviet Union
• Soviets help because of the fact that China was
  communist
• To promote itself China got involved in the
  Korean War, threatening to send troops to attack
  U.S. forces
• Soviets helped Mao fight off Nationalists and a
  mutual defense treaty was made against Japan and
  the U.S.

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Years during the Cold War

• Oct. 1 1949, Communist Mao Zedong take control on
  China
• Dec. 1 1949 Chaing Kai-Shek moved to Formosa and
  started Nationalist government
• 1950, China gets involved in Korean War
• 1952, Five-Anti Campaign starts
• 1958, The Great Leap forward starts
• 1966, The Cultural Revolution happens
• 1972, Richard Nixon goes to China
• 1976, The arrest of Gang of Four and the deaths
  of Zbou Enlai and Mao Zedong
• 1980, Trial for the Gang of Four
• 1989, The Tiananmen Incident

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Technology in China

• Several kinds of Technology available in China
  like High-Speed Rails, Nuclear Power, Super
  Computers, etc.
• The amount of technology in China helped
  massively because their large population
• Technology has impacted China greatly allowing
  them to grow at an extreme rate each year

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Pros and Cons of Chinas Technology

• Pros

• Cons

• Faster Communication
• Better Health Care
• High wind generated electricity

• Major environment problems like Air Pollution,
  Acid Rain, and land becoming deserts.

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Occurred problems with China

• Inflation
• Population
• Environmental Concerns
• Consumption
• Mobility management

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Chinas Largest Problem

• Chinas population is its hugest problem
• Population is about 1.3 Billion people
• China makes up 20 of worlds population
• Chinese restricted to only having one child

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