1. Changing China

2. L.O. To identify/recap some key characteristics of changing China To identify key characteristics of the country’s development To place China’s development in context

3. Changing China - review What do the following images tell you about how China has changed in the last 35 years?

6. Images – subjective? How can we be more objective? Data? GDP? Describe the graph.

7. China’s development “Development” - what does this mean? The use of resources to improve a country’s standard of living Developed/Developing North-South Third World (1 st/ 2 nd World) NICs/RICs MEDCs/LEDCs More/Less developed countries HEDCs (BRICS) Key issue: improvement All based on economic indicators – GNP/GDP etc What about social (& cultural?) indicators – life expectancy, birth/death rate, literacy, access to safe water etc HDI PQLI HFI … “Development is more than mere economics” Mark Tully

8. Is GDP enough? In pairs: choose 6 indicators of development. You should choose a mixture of economic & social indicators, e.g., GN/DP, life expectancy… These should be chosen to help put China into context – objectively. Justify your choices Sources of information?

9. Indicators of development Comparative statistics: research the figures for: China, India UK USA Brazil Russia Nigeria South Africa Mexico. Which sources should be used? Produce a table for this data. How does China fare in relation to the other countries? Write a commentary on your results. Gini Coefficient: what is this? What does it tell us about the country? https://www.cia.gov/library/publica tions/the-world- factbook/fields/2172.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publica tions/the-world- factbook/fields/2172.html

10. Useful websites http://www.gapminder.org/ Analyses comparative statistics in scattergraph format and on maps etc. http://www.worldmapper.org/ Presents data in map form http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx http://www.wri.org/publication/content/8412 National statistics. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world- factbook/geos/ch.htmlhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world- factbook/geos/ch.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China Also use the BBC’s guide to countries – good on political changes. You can use these to help you identify and analyse the reasons for any spatial patterns that exist.