China

An Overview
 Natural Resources
• Coal • Molybdenum
• Iron ore • Vanadium
• Petroleum • Magnetite
• Natural gas • Aluminum
• Mercury • Lead
• Tin • Zinc
• Tungsten • Uranium
• Antimony • Hydropower potential
• Manganese, • arable land: 14.86%
permanent crops: 1.27%
• Electricity production:3.256 trillion kWh
• Oil production: 3.725 million bbl/day
• Natural gas production 69.27 billion cu m
 Natural Hazards
• frequent typhoons
(about five per year
along southern and
eastern coasts)
• damaging floods
• Tsunamis
• Earthquakes
• Droughts
 Population
• 1,338,612,968 people total
• 0-14 years: 19.8%
– male 140,877,745 female 124,290,090
• 15-64 years: 72.1%
– male 495,724,889 female 469,182,087
• 65 years and over: 8.1%
– male 51,774,115 female 56,764,042
• Growth Rate: 0.655%
• urban population: 43% of total population
rate of urbanization: 2.7% annual rate of change
• Education Expenditures 1.9% of GDP (1999)
 Current Government
• Communist
– 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities
– chief of state: President HU Jintao
– Vice President XI Jinping
head of government: Premier WEN Jiabao
– Executive Vice Premier LI Keqiang
– Vice Premier HUI Liangyu
– Vice Premier ZHANG Deijiang
– Vice Premier WANG Qishan
 Current Government
– cabinet: State Council appointed by National People's
Congress (NPC)
– elections: president and vice president elected by
National People's Congress for a five-year term
(eligible for a second term)
– elections last held 15-17 March 2008 (next to be held
in mid-March 2013); premier nominated by president,
confirmed by National People's Congress
– election results: HU Jintao elected president by
National People's Congress with a total of 2,963
votes; XI Jinping elected vice president with a total of
2,919 votes
 International Organizations
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• International Criminal Court
• UN Security Council
• UN Human Rights Council
• World Trade Organization
 Economy
• GDP - $7.8 trillion • Labor Force
– Compared to US – Total 807.7 million
$14.29 trillion – agriculture: 43%
• GDP Real Growth industry: 25%
Rate - 9.8% services: 32%
– Compared to US 1.3% • Unemployment: 4%
• GDP composition by officially in urban
sector areas, but including
– agriculture: 10.6%
migrants may be as
industry: 49.2% high as 9%
services: 40.2%