China Summary - 2021 - Key facts

Question 1

How much has China’s GNI improved?

Answer 1

Up 3 places from 29th to 26th in the world over the last 10 years

Question 2

Name one example of infrastructure that has been built in China?

Answer 2

Colleges and universities
Zhuhai-Macau 55km bridge
Shanghai Port (largest in the world)
School of mathematics

Question 3

Why did the UK provide so much foreign aid to China in the 1970s

Answer 3

To help with a tsunami

Question 4

What countries does China particularly trade with?

Answer 4

Japan (despite historical issues)
Indonesia, Philippines
India, Pakistan
USA

Question 5

What’s the main port in China

Answer 5

Shanghai

Question 6

When did Shanghai start exporting goods via its port?

Answer 6

1840s

Question 7

Which river is increasingly being used for industrialisation

Answer 7

Mekong River

Question 8

Which countries suffer from China’s use of the Mekong river

Answer 8

Thailand, Laos, Vietnam

Question 9

Which sea does China want control over

Answer 9

South China Sea

Question 10

Which countries have historically invaded China and removed their sense of control?

Answer 10

Japan, UK (Opium Wars)

Question 11

Where are the majority of Chinese people from?

Answer 11

The heartland,

It’s the Han people

Question 12

What does the Grand Canal do?

Answer 12

Joins the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, and allows water to get from the heartland to Beijing

Question 13

Which major cities, inland, are growing rapidly along the rivers

Answer 13

Chongquing, and Chengdu

Centres for finance, logistics, ICT and high-quality agriculture research

Question 14

Which countries is China acting aggressively towards?

Answer 14

Philippines

Question 15

What did France see as so attractive in the China in the 1800s

Answer 15

Fashion, architecture.

Question 16

What feature of education has really enabled the growth of tertiary sector?

Answer 16

Shanghai Maths, students are ahead of British counterparts

Question 17

How much has GNI grown?

Answer 17

GNI has more than doubled from $3.57k per capita in 2005 to $10.41k per capita in 2021.

Question 18

Which part of China has benefitted the most from economic growth?

Answer 18

The east. It’s become the core.

The west has become the periphery.

Question 19

How do TNCs exploit china’s workforce

Answer 19

They pay them lower than minimum wages, e.g. the workers in the Foxconn factory in Suzhou (just outside of Shanghai)

Question 20

Name a dominant Chinese company that has grown up because of eco growth

Answer 20

Huawei and the Alibaba Group are amongst 40 such companies who employ the 996 schedule (12 hours a day, 6 days a week)

Question 21

What are the negative socioeconomic consequences of economic growth?

Answer 21

RUM (Rural-Urban Migration) leads to cultural dilution
An elderly, ageing population do not have anyone to look after
Gender imbalance (170 men to 100 women in some villages

Question 22

How much has GDP (PPP increased by)

Answer 22

From $5.02k in 2005 to $10.41k in 2021, better quality of life.

Question 23

What have been the environmental negative consequences of economic growth

Answer 23

60% of underground water is polluted. 44% of cities with poor quality water.
83% of China exposed to unhealthy air quality.
Pollution causes 17%of deaths in China: Beijing PM 2.5 density is 90, anything above 25 is dangerous

Question 24

How have Chinese TNCs in China taken advantage of globalisation

Answer 24

Copy catting

Question 25

What has tax income been reinvested into to enable even more globalisation

Answer 25

Reinvested in infrastructure, accelerating growth and eventually bringing people into the tertiary quaternary job sectors

Question 26

How does the mulitiplier effect benefit Chinese population?

Answer 26

Each successive generation becomes wealthier, with increased consumer spending doing power
And better infrastructure reducing travel times

Question 27

What are the problems of economic growth for society?

Answer 27

Increased wealth gap / generational pay gap / EW split

BUT, will those people in the west just move to the east?

Question 28

How important is research and development for China’s economy?

Answer 28

It’s counts for 10% of GDP

I.e. it creates 10billion of income for China in a year

Question 29

How many warships does China have?

Answer 29

roughly 330

Question 30

How many people live in the Pearl River Delta?

Answer 30

66 million

Question 31

How are western TNCs taking advantage of Chinese workers?

Answer 31

Companies such as Foxconn, are one of the exploited companies by Apple, as the company tends to get paid between 1-2% of the phones retail price

Question 32

How much has Foreign Direct investment grown?

Answer 32

$19million (1990) to $300million in 1999

FDI now makes up 5.8% of China’s GPD (productivity)