China is located in Eastern Asia. Some of its major bordering countries include India, Mongolia, and Russia; all boarding it by at least 3,000km (CIA World Fact Book). 14,500km of China's boarder is made up of coastline (CIA World Fact Book). China has a total area of 9,596,961 sq km and is a little bit smaller than the United States (CIA World Fact Book). It is the fourth largest country in the world (CIA World Fact Book). China's climate is diverse and goes from tropical in the South to subarctic in the North (CIA World Fact Book). Some of China's natural hazards include, "frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence"(CIA World Fact Book).
As of July 2009 China has a populations of 1,338,612,968 people and is the most populated country in the world (CIA World Fact Book). 91.5% of the population is part of the ethnic group Han Chines, with 8.5% of the population belonging to a variety of other ethnic groups including, "Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uyghur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities"(CIA World Fact Book). They have a 90.9% literacy rate for people over the age of 15(CIA World Fact Book). The main religion of China is Buddhism with around 100,000 people belonging to it(U.S. Department of State). China's government type is communism, and their capital is the city of Beijing.
-https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html(CIA World Fact Book) 10/20/2009
-http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/18902.htm (U.S. Department of State) 10/20/2009
-http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/culture/ 10/20/2009
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The informatioan about China you collected is so good and broad but if you can organize them into different groups that will be helpful reader to read.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Lu. You have nice information about China I believe (since Lu said so :b), but it will look fancier if organized. Good luck!
ReplyDeletegood information, at times hard to understand, i agree with what Lu said. Good luck you'll be fine
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ReplyDeleteyour report has good information about China.
Best of luck for your interview.
i think you need more cultural introduction like tradition, history something like that
ReplyDeleteYou have found helpful information, but I agree that you might want to add more about the history, education system ect.
ReplyDeletei agree with lu and mike, organizing your info would make it easy to read.
ReplyDeleteGood information. Maybe add some cultural aspects for the readers . Good job!
ReplyDeleteI would write numbers after it instead of writing world fact book after each one. then on the bottom, you can just do one big citation. See you in class :)
ReplyDeleteGood information :) maybe add a little more info on the culture of China. Hope your interview went well!
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