China

Question 1

What are SEZ’s?

Answer 1

Special economic zones - where foreign companies are encouraged to set up manufacturing plants in return for preferable tax rates

Question 2

What are ‘open cities’ and how many are there?

Answer 2

They offer incentives for foreign companies to invest, there are 14

Question 3

At the beginning of the 21st century how much inward investment was China receiving a year?

Answer 3

Over $50billion

Question 4

What was the inward investment total in 2006?

Answer 4

$63billion

Question 5

When did China join the WTO?

Answer 5

2001

Question 6

Having joined the WTO, what happened to China’s exports from 2001 to 2006?

Answer 6

From $266billion in 2001 to $969billion in 2006

Question 7

When did China’s economy change from being centrally planned to market orientated?

Answer 7

1978

Question 8

From 1990 to 1991 the number of people living on less than $1 a day fell by?

Answer 8

150million

Question 9

A Chinese person pollutes ?% of what an American pollutes?

Answer 9

25%

Question 10

What is the Chinese economy driven by?

Answer 10

Exports and investment rather than consumption

Question 11

What is the core belief of Confucian values?

Answer 11

That individuals need to put societies needs before their own