China+Pd.3+General+Information

= China =

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Geographic =~LocationEastern Asia, South of Russia and North-East of India = =~Coordinates:--35 00 N, 105 00 E =

﻿~Capital:---Beijing ﻿~Major Cities:---Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan ﻿History =~Independence:---221 B.C.Unification under the Qin Dynasty = =01/01/1912---Republic of China repl. Qing Dynasty = =10/01/1949---People's Republic of China Est. 1949-1976---Rule of Mao Zedong 1978-1997Deng Xiaoping leads China = =~Constitution:-12/04/1982_Most recent promulgation = =amendments in 1988, 1993, 2004 = =Important Leaders = =﻿~ Head of State:President Hu Jintao = =<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~ Head of Government:-Premier Wen Jiabo = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Vice President:-Xi Jinping <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Executive Vice Premier: Li Kiqiang <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Vice Premiers:---Hui Liangyu. Zhang Dejiang, Wang Qishan

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Type of Government
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Communist State <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Single-Party Republic

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Major Religions <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Atheism <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~ Daoism <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~ Buddhism <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Confucianism

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Economic Information <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~GDP-$7,400 (cia.gov) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~GNP-$2,263.8 billion (students of the world)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~PPP-$9.872 trillion (cia.gov) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Gini Index-- 41.5% (2007) (indexmundi) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Primary Sector: 9.6% <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Secondary Sector: 46.8% <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Tertiary Sector: 34.1%

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Literacy <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Literacy Rate:--95.7% male, 87.6% female (cia.gov) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~School Enrollment: 97.4% (1991) (tradingeconomics)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Pre-Primary School: 44%
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Primary School: 113%
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Secondary Enrollment: 76%
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tertiary Enrollment: 23%
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Percentages of children in school are represented by Gross Enrollment Ratios which is the number of pupils enrolled in a given level of education regardless of age expressed as a percentage of the population in the theoretical age group for that level of education."
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ethnicity <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~Han Chinese 91.5% (cia.gov)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Pertinent Information <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~China originally functioned under a Soviet Communist model. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">~China currently has a 1 child population policy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">meant to limit the growth of China's already large population.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">pressures of fines, abortion, and sterilization are used to enforce the policy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">female infanticide in China due to the policy has caused a disproportion between males and females
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Rural people and minorities are exempted from the policy (about.com)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Rural people because they are impossible to track
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Minorities because they are needed to do physical labor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Quotas are set for how many people per village can be born.

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