Changing China

Changing China

• L.O.

• To identify/recap some key characteristics of changing China

• To identify key characteristics of the country’s development

• To place China’s development in context

Changing China - review

• What do the following images tell you about how China has changed in the last 35 years?

• Images – subjective? • How can we be more objective?• Data? GDP?• Describe the graph.

China’s development• “Development” - what does

this mean?

• The use of resources to improve a country’s standard of living

• Developed/Developing• North-South• Third World (1st/2nd World)• NICs/RICs• MEDCs/LEDCs• More/Less developed countries• HEDCs• (BRICS)

• Key issue: improvement

• All based on economic indicators – GNP/GDP etc

• What about social (& cultural?) indicators – life expectancy, birth/death rate, literacy, access to safe water etc

• HDI • PQLI• HFI…

• “Development is more than mere economics” Mark Tully

• Is GDP enough?

• In pairs: choose 6 indicators of development. You should choose a mixture of economic & social indicators, e.g., GN/DP, life expectancy…

• These should be chosen to help put China into context – objectively.

• Justify your choices

• Sources of information?

Indicators of development• Comparative statistics:

research the figures for: • China, • India• UK• USA• Brazil• Russia• Nigeria• South Africa• Mexico. • Which sources should be

used?

• Produce a table for this data.

• How does China fare in relation to the other countries? Write a commentary on your results.

• Gini Coefficient: what is this? What does it tell us about the country? https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2172.html

Useful websites• http://www.gapminder.org/• Analyses comparative statistics in scattergraph format and on maps

etc.• http://www.worldmapper.org/• Presents data in map form• http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx• http://www.wri.org/publication/content/8412• National statistics.• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/

ch.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China• Also use the BBC’s guide to countries – good on political changes.

• You can use these to help you identify and analyse the reasons for any spatial patterns that exist.