Chapter 8: A Preface to China's Changing Economic Geography

Question 1

Spatial Redeployment of Production and Distribution

Answer 1

1. Employ market forces and incentives to advance the are of economic growth and accelerate trade with the global trading system
2. Establish new economic regions linking China’s new production centres geared toward the global exchange economy
3. Execute through advances in technology both in production and in transportation and logistics

Question 2

Geographical Processes - Leveraging local advantages:

Answer 2

• points
• lines
• areas

Question 3

Strategic Framework for a Socialist Well-off Society (3)

Answer 3

• Search for a route to development fitting for Chinese circumstances after the era of Mao Zedong
• the 70 year plan of socialist modernizations devised and implemented by Deng Xiaoping
• New contract with the Chinese people to lift living standards in three phases

Question 4

China adopted a __________________ economic model based largely on the _______ approach.

Answer 4

centrally planned, Soviet

Question 5

The Fourteenth Five-Year Plan (2021-2025)

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Answer 5

• China’s top policy makes meet to hammer out the country’s future economic blueprint, offering clues on how the leadership plans to pivot the world’s second-largest economy to be more self-sufficient

Question 6

The Fourteenth Five-Year Plan (2021-2025)

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Answer 6

• the 4 day meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee will take place behind closed doors
• the discussion will focus on the framework for China’s 14th five-year plan

Question 7

The Fourteenth Five-Year Plan (2021-2025)

Key Themes:

Answer 7

• Dual Circulation
• Growth Target
• 2035 Blueprint
• Technology Innovation