1. BY: CHRISTIAN LYON AND YIXIN SHEN

2. General Information Population : 1.3 billion Currency : Yuan / Ren Min Bi(RMB) 6.5580 RMB = 1 Dollar Official Language : Mandarin Chinese

3. Important Events 1949- founding of the People’s Republic of China 1949 – 1975 Reign of Mao Ze Dong 1953- Chairman Mao’s five year plan 1958- Great Leap Forward 1976- Death of Chairman Mao 1978 – 1991 Reign of Den Xiao Ping 1989- Tiananmen Square Protests

4. Government Today 3 Branches of Government Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the dominating party China is divided into 23 provinces, each electing their own regional leader

6. Branch: Executive Vice President: Xi JinPing President: Hu Jintao

7. Leaders of China Premier: Wen JiaBao Executive Vice Premier: Li KeQiang

8. Vice Premiers Hui LiangYu Zhang DeJiang Wang QiShan

9. Branch: Judicial China has a four-level court system At the top is the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing Lower courts are the higher people’s courts in provinces, autonomous regions, and special municipalities intermediate people’s courts at the prefecture level Special courts handle matters affecting the military, railroad transportation, water transportation, and forestry.

10. Branch: Legislative Deputies serve five-year terms and meet annually for two or three weeks in March or April 2,979 deputies were elected in 2011

11. Legitimacy the perceived right to exercise power the belief of a country's citizens that the government has the right to rule and exercise authority. China's legitimacy does not solely reside in one sector, but comes from many of the sources of legitimacy that have been defined by political scientists. China is perceived as a legitimate country by other  Constitution  Leader

12. Dynasties The Chinese polity was first consolidated and proclaimed an empire during the Qin Dynasty Qin Dynasty set lasting unifying structures, such as forms of writing, coinage, and a pattern of thought for scholars

13. Relationship with United States Some say that the relationship between China and the United States is "the most important" bilateral relationship in the world China hold about $2 trillion foreign reserves Chinese cooperation is required for the success of the United States economy China has no desire to be an enemy of the United States "Both China and the United States need to give each other due respect and need to incentivize each other. And then we can work together towards a better peace and better world.” said by Victor Zhikai Gao, the director of the Beijing Private Equity Association

14. Olympics "One World, One Dream” Promoted a green and high-tech Olympics After winning its 2001 bid to host the Olympic Games, China launched a massive seven-year effort to prepare for the event The 2008 Olympics will be among the most expansive ever held China invested nearly $40 billion in infrastructure

15. Current Event The article from the Wall Street Journal, Asia’s New Arms Race, discusses simply the arms race currently in Asia. Even though the article talks about Asia as a whole it is important to know that China is one of the catalysts of the arms race, and in my opinion the most important one. While China’s current spending does not come close to the United States’, China’s was roughly $78 billion in 2010, while the United States’ was $150 billion in 2009. The defense budget of China, has increased by 358%, part of which has been invested into the design of the J- 20 stealth jet fighter, which is said to rival the U.S.’ F-22.

16. Current Event The military buildup that China is undergoing is a component of nationalism, China is letting its providences, Tibet for example that they will be staying part of China. More interesting is weather China will test its military power and attempt annex parts of India, Russia, Japan or Korea in an attempt posses enough natural resources to continue to feed its economic growth.

17. Video about current event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Jzi4Ut0tY

18. Discussion Questions What do you think defines a superpower? Do you think china will be a superpower Do you think china will be a democracy? will the middle class growth help or hurt the democracy growth? Is the major thing people think about when you say china communism or that they are a powerful country

19. Discussion Questions Is the major thing people think about when you say china communism or that they are a powerful country China makes the most pollution if you think people will care about the environment.

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