ECONOMIC development - china

Question 1

what is development?

Answer 1

development is an improvement in the economic development and quality of life within a country

Question 2

what are the indicators of development?

Answer 2

literacy rate 
people per doctor 
access to safe water
life expectancy 
infant mortality 
birth rate
death rate

Question 3

what is core, semi-periphery and periphery?

Answer 3

core is the economic and political decision-making
semi-periphery is growing in development
periphery source of raw material

Question 4

why is there low population in the north west of china?

Answer 4

• PHYSICAL arid desert, mountians

- HUMAN remote so less trade

Question 5

why is there dense population in the east of china?

Answer 5

• PHYSICAL Do not have extreme climates, flat land, better rainfall, good for building and farming
  
  • HUMAN Major ports, good trade, more work

Question 6

why is there dense population in the south west of china?

Answer 6

• PHYSICAL water supply

- HUMAN good trade along Yangtze river

Question 7

what is urbanisation?

Answer 7

• With a growing population, an increasing middle class and the falling need for agricultural workers , people are moving from rural areas to more urban places and big cities

Question 8

how many people have left rural areas to seek work?

Answer 8

160 million

Question 9

why did people leave rural areas?

Answer 9

work

• more income 40% more than rural areas
• they make more in a month in urban than that of a year in rural areas

Question 10

what are the negative aspects of migration in china?

Answer 10

• SOCIAL Hukou system-only get health care in the province they were born, so they leave their children - separation
  
  • ENVIRONMENTAL Pollution, water, air etc

Question 11

what are the positives aspects of migration?

Answer 11

• ECONOMIC Remittances

- Bigger work force

Question 12

what did china do in 1978?

Answer 12

opened its borders for trade, economic exchange and foreign investment