China Case Study

Question 1

Where is China?

Answer 1

• East Asia

- Environmentally diverse

Question 2

Why is China difficult to develop?

Answer 2

-The high mountains, deserts and forests mean =s there isn’t a lot of flat ground to easily inhabit

Question 3

How does a coastline help China?

Answer 3

-Allowed for trade links with local countries and further afield

Question 4

How is Chinas economy?

Answer 4

• Incredibly successful
• Increased over 900 % in 40 years
• GDP is at $15.66 trillion

Question 5

What is the global importance of China?

Answer 5

• Part of the World Trade Organisation increasing the development of the market economy
• One of the most commonly spoken languages in the world
• North Koreas closest trading partner
• Largest trading nation in the world with over 40% of goods exported

Question 6

Who was Mao Zedong?

Answer 6

• A communist leader who grew the economy in the means of agriculture
• Caused a famine where around 15 million died
• Agriculture meant GDP was limited

Question 7

Who was Deng Xiaoping and what was his policies?

Answer 7

• Leader of China in the 70’s
• Open-door Policy to attract Foreign Direct Investors
• Dedicated cities as Special Economic Zones which if people invested in and moved factories there import and export tariffs would be lower

Question 8

Why is it called the workshop of the world?

Answer 8

• SEZ’s mean there is a lot of investment
• Cheap Labour
• Space to build
• 136.3 billion dollars of investment each year

Question 9

What is a TNC?

Answer 9

• Transnational Corporations

- Any Company operating in more than one country

Question 10

How have TNC’s changed the economy?

Answer 10

• Hardly any primary industry

- Mostly a growth in tertiary industries and still manufacturing

Question 11

How many manufacturing workers are there in China?

Answer 11

215 million

Question 12

What role do TNC’s play?

Answer 12

• 128 American TNC’s in China
• All TNC’s that are Chinese are all state-owned
• Lots of employment and GDP generated

Question 13

Positive effects of Disney as a TNC?

Answer 13

• Employment means people are getting a huge boost especially migrant workers
• Peoples health have improved and children may get an education

Question 14

Negative effects of Disney as a TNC?

Answer 14

• Poor wages for workers (Fraction of what the product is worth)
• Poor working conditions in sweatshops ways

Question 15

What relationships does China maintain with other countries?

Answer 15

• Afghanistan- China is continuing to supply afghan government with everything they need
• UK-Lots of exports and imports of cheap goods
• USA-Trade battle with China where they complain about trade problems
• Russia-Stable trade relationship manufacturing chemicals and machinery

Question 16

How has China supplied aid?

Answer 16

• $210 million investment in Africa (46% chinese aid)
• Large amounts of health aid of doctors and hospitals being built
• Tied aid forcing Africa to give good deals in oil

Question 17

Environmental problems due to industry in China?

Answer 17

• Pollution of the Yangtze river poisoning water supplies and killing off fish
• Cancer villages with high amounts of cancer,premature deaths and deformities due to chemically contaminated water
• Lead pollution in Hebai province
• Smoke and smog creating lung problems
• Landfill sites unsafe and collapsing.

Question 18

Positive effects due to economic growth in China?

Answer 18

• Lots of millionaires and billionaires means there is a lot of money in the economy
• Consumers spend $73 million on luxury goods each year.
• Growth in wealth mean there’s a large amount of middle class.

Question 19

Negative effects to economic growth in China?

Answer 19

• Disproportionate distribution of wealth

- 82 million chinese live on less than a dollar a day