China – Everything you need to know by Sabin Lee by Sabin Lee

Land A very old civilization (one of the oldest) with a great population, bigger than other countries. China is mostly made up of mountains and deserts. The North China Plain is a great place to farm because of the loess (fertile soil) that covers it.

Water The Huang He river has 400 million people living on shore. The Yangzi river is the ONLY river that allows cargo ships to pass because of it ’ s deepness.

Climate At the top of China it is cold and at the bottom of China it is somewhat close to hot. China has monsoons which blow across China at some time of the year.

Climate (continued) China also has typhoons which is similar to hurricanes that happen in coastline areas in the U.S.

Vegetation Bamboo in China grows fast in wet seasons but can amazingly survive the dryness that happens in China. China’s vegetation in the deserts, (shrubs, flowers etc.) grow really fast during wet seasons but disappears as fast as they grow when dry seasons come.

Natural Resources For more than 2000 years, China has mined minerals such as copper, tin, and iron. China has one of the most biggest supply of coal in the world. Some people fish using a pole and nets and some use birds (cormorant) to fetch fish.

Natural Resources (continued) China takes advantage of the flowing rivers they have and make hydroelectricity which is electricity made from the power of flowing waters. Chinese use aquaculture (also known as sea farming) to raise fish in cages to keep them from running away. These can be found in shallow bays in China.

Natural Resource (continued again) China catches more than twice the amount of freshwater fish than any other country in the world only about 10% of china’s land can be farmed only about 10% of china’s land can be farmed Farmers cut terraces (ledges) into hillsides to get some yards of soil to make crops. Some farmers practice double-cropping which is cropping 2 crops in 1 land in 1 year.

Historic Traditions The great Wall of China was built in 600B.C., which now is a symbol to show how much China wanted to keep the world away from them. China invented stuff used today (paper, gunpowder, silk weaving, the printing press, clockwork, the spinning wheel, and the water wheel Confucius was a Chinese philosopher that said something known by everyone. known by everyone.

Historic Traditions (continued) China was ruled by Emperors a long time ago. Some Chinese went to the Korean Peninsula and settled there when China faced troubles. After that, some Chinese moved to the bottom part of the Korean Peninsula. China cultural diffused (spread ideas) to Korea and Japan.

Historic Traditions (continued again) China got the idea of Buddhism from India and spread it to Korea and Japan. Marco Polo (Italian merchant) went to China and told Italy about China. Countries wanted to control parts of China for it’s wealth. At that time, China was obviously not strong enough to defend it self.

Historic Traditions (continued again) The U.S. said to other countries that China should be open for trade and shared equally with the other nations. The U.S. said to other countries that China should be open for trade and shared equally with the other nations. Revolution came when China blamed the Emperors and that’s when the rule of Emperors disappeared. The Nationalists and the Communist in China fought each other making it a civil war.

People and Cultures Chinese play Weiqi which use 181 black stones (night) and 180 white stones (day) The government ended land ownership and made communes (where farmers work together in 1 piece of land). The Chinese farmers (of course) felt bad when they lost their land and They refused to work together.

People and Culture (continued) When the Government noticed this, he/she gave back farmers some private land. Communist tried to slow down China’s population growth by attacking families with a lot of Children. Women’s rank goes up when the Communist got power.

People and Culture (continued again) People can see the old China mostly in Rural areas but can also be sometimes seen in cities. About 19/20 (93%) people follow the Han Dynasty, leaving 7% of people in 55 different Ethnic Groups.

Transformation In 1980, almost everyone had bicycles but now, people use cars or subways. Mao Zedong (a Chinese leader) started an extreme policy, also known as, “The great leap forward”. The policy turned out to be a HUGE disaster and a great leap backwards.

Transformation (continued) Mao’s other policy (Cultural Revolution) which he wanted to create a totally new society without China’s past. This policy required Red Guards (rebel students) to destroy old buildings. The Red Guards also attacked and captured artist, professors, and doctors

Transformation (continued again) The Red Guards were also put to jail for threatening Mao’s government. The nationalist lost the Civil war and fled to Taiwan, an island near China. The government (Republic of China) was new to Taiwan. Taiwan used the system of free enterprise

Transformation (continued again) Taiwan’s free enterprise system was unbelievably one of the strongest in the world. Money from the farm output that the nationalists started programs of were helped build ports and railroads in Taiwan Taiwan and China fought to see who the real China was.

Transformation (continued again) Taiwan had the support of other nations so at first, Taiwan was winning. Since Taiwan traded and got support from other countries, the other nations did not trade with China. Mao’s policy turned China upside down which means China was in hard times.

Transformation (continued again) In the late 1970’s, China FINALLY realized that China needed some better leader to lead China. First things first. They first started trying to get the other nation’s trade and support back. President Richard Nixon went to China and that turned out a miracle and opened a trade between them.

Transformation (continued again) Mao died in After Mao’s death, more better leaders came and in 1978, the leaders allowed China to join the US nations.\ In 1980, a leader (Deng Xiaoping) was made leader. Deng made many changes in China like allowing some free enterprise to China.

Transformation (continued again) Farmers now could sell crops for profits Private factories sell items (electronic items, clothes, computer parts, toys, etc.). The government is sometimes criticized for treating China’s people poorly. I guess they can say that because the government killed many people.

Transformation (continued again) Deng died in 1997 Jiang Zemin is formal leader of China today and he followed Deng’s lead my keeping control over China strictly. Beijing was chosen to be where the 2008 Olympics will happen. People that come will see for themselves if China is handling their problems good or not.

I would like to thank these People/companies… Asia and the Pacific textbook for giving me all the information needed to finish this Google for giving me certain pictures I needed China Project sheet for telling me what to do Power Point DO’s and DON’T’s sheet for telling me what to do and what not to do on power point Power Point for making me able to show a slideshow

Finally, China The country this presentation is about and without China, none of this would have happened (PowerPoint presentation) and we would lose that precious land with fertile soil and a lot of natural resources (coal, iron, freshwater fishes) and a BIG trade station for all of the nations in the world.

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