CHINA 中國 04 / 26 /08 BRIAN KANG

Table of Contents China’s Land China’s Vegetation China’s Climate China’s Water China’s Transformation China’s People China’s Culture China’s Historic Traditions China’s Natural Resources

China’s Land China Is one of the biggest countries in the world. It is located in Asia below Russia. China coast that fronts on the in the east part, there are Yellow sea East China Sea, and the South China Sea. It is bounded on the east by Russia and North Korea and on the north by Russia, Mongolia, and on the south by India, Nepal and Bhutan. The territory of modern China is characterized by dramatic geographical diversity. Topographically, it is low in the east and high in the west. The land surface ascends like a three-step staircase. China does lots of farming to feed the great amount of people in China. jeffreylott.wordpress.com/ Depts.wahington.edu

China’s vegetation China’s vegetation is very important to Chinese. Most of the Chinese do farming to feed their family and sell crops to the Chinese. Chinese grows grains along the north east part of china where it is colder and easier to grow grains and in the south east part of China, where the Yangtze river flows they grow lot of rice because in the the temperature is warmer. The Yangtze river helps the rice to get water. www.playthegameoflife.org/2006_06_01_archive.html

China’s Climate Due to the reason that China is one of the biggest land in the world, It has variety of Climates. China's climate ranges from extremely dry, desert-like conditions in the north and west to the rain and heat of the tropical monsoon in the south and southeast. Most of the country, however, lies in the temperate zone and experiences four seasons.  Depts.wahington.edu www.agro.pvoss.de/soil-climate.htm

China’s water The Huang he river There are two major rivers in China.the Yangtze river and the Huang he river. These river helps China grow wheat, rice and helps China produce hydroelectric power. Due to the high economic growth rate and production Recently the China is facing increasingly frequent and desperate shortages,disastrous flooding in some areas,and dangerous levels of pollution www.damninteresting.com The Yangtze river www.new-agri.co.uk www.arizonahandbook.com

China’s Transformation Today, China's major cities, have modern and tall buildings and houses. Also new roads connect province to cities. The transportations and vehicles increased in use. China is working to become an industrial nation. Even though the communist party still had remained in control, it allows free enterprise and foreign investment. Therefore, the population living in urban area I increasing rapidly, It means China is facing a big reformation. www.worldsocialism.org Imageserchnaver.com

Chinese People China's present population is approximately 1.2 billion, which is about one fifth of the earth's entire population. China has to feed 22% of the world's people on 7% of the world's arable land, which is a considerable task. Recently the Chinese people’s wrights went up. Especially the Woman’s wrights. Now the women has the right to vote, own property, do work, and choose her husband. However still Chinese people can’t have more then one babies. Slowly China is getting out of Chinese. Imageserchnaver.com faculty.harker.org

Chinese Culture China has many old cultures like art, holiday, food, games and traditions. The Chinese food is very traditional. Chinese has invented millions of different kinds of foods. These food are loved by all the people in the world. Tea is the most common nonalcoholic beverage. China’s language is officially Mandarin,as spoken in Beijing. About 70%of the population speak Mandarin. Imageserchnaver.com www.china-window.com

Chinese Historic Traditions China has a rich and long history. Chinese civilization is said to have began 5000 years ago. There were many dynasties like Qin, Han Tang, Song and so on. Each dynasty has it’ own culture and many events. For example, in Han dynasty, Buddhism was introduced and flourished fine art. Imageserchnaver.com

China’s Natural Resources China produces many different types of natural recourses like copper, iron, phosphates, tin, petroleum, tinstone and hydroelectric power. These help the Chinese to export or make product with the resources. Imageserchnaver.com