China and its Economic

China and its Economic

Introduction of China

The People Republic of China, my home country, is situated in eastern Asia on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean. The area of China is about 9.6 million square kilometers. China has more than 5000 islands; Taiwan and Hainan are two biggest islands of them.

The scenery of China is very beautiful, with mountains and ranges highlands, plains, basins, and hills. The area of mountains and hills is about 65 present of China’s whole mass, and there are more than 2000 lakes in China. China is characterized by a continental climate; the average latitude is about fifty degree. Temperatures differ therefore rather strikingly across the country.

China abounds in natural recourse, the amount of natural resource is always at the top ten of them world. As my research, only few countries in the world boast more wildlife than China, many of them are native to China, like giant panda, snub-nosed golden monkey and so on, what is more important, China's dawn redwood and Cathay argyrophylla are also recognized as the living fossils of ancient plants. . In modern society, China has established more than 700 nature reserves to protect native plants and animals.

The history of China is about five thousand years, in the 21st century B.C; China began to experience the slave society with the founding of the Xia Dynasty. In 221 B.C., Qin Shihuang established China's first centralized autocracy. During the 5000 years, the economic and science is really developed a lot in ancient China. About 3000 years ago, the Chinese had mastered the art of bronze metallurgy, they invented the irons implement, many famous scientists, artists, thinkers and writers come into beings. Ancient China's four inventions: papermaking, printing, powder, and the compass are also famous in the world. On the other hand, Chinese achievements in mathematics, medical science, astronomy, agriculture, and architecture, are also be recognized by the entire world.

 China is a multiracial country with 56 ethnic groups, the Han people account for 92 present of the population. Beijing is the Capital of China; Beijing is not only the political center of China, but also the cultural, scientific, educational heart of China, but also the key transportation hub in China. The history of Beijing has been served as capital is over eight hundred years. Many accident building are also famous in the world, for example, the great wall, the Temple of Heaven and so on.

The national flag of the People's Republic of China is red in color, rectangular in shape, with five stars. The proportion between the length and height of the flag is three to two. There are five five-pointed yellow stars which are located in the upper left corner of the national flog. One of them, the bigger one, located on the left, the other four stars hem it in on the right.

Chinese Economic:

          During the last twenty years, as the development of science and the progress of the world economic, the economics of China also increase quickly. Chinese peoples’ life is becoming much better than before. In the last 20 years, the economic growth of China has been almost miraculous, averaging 8% growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the growth of economy is more than ten times during that period. By 2007, Chinese GDP has already reached 3.42 trillion US dollars, in Purchasing Power Parity GDP; China has been the second biggest economic country after USA.

            In the modern economic history of China, economic reforms started in the 70s and 80s. At first, the initial focus of these reforms was on collectivizing the agricultural activities of the country. Few years later, the Chinese government tried to transfer the center of Chinese agriculture from farming to household activities. After that, reforms of China extended to the liberalization of prices, in a gradual manner.

            China has generally implemented reforms in a gradualist fashion. In modern world, the economics of China have already played an important role to the international trade in the world. China's foreign trade has grown faster than its GDP for the past 25 years. The growth of Chinese economic comes from both state investments in infrastructure and heavy industry and from private sectors expansion in light industry expects just export. In 2008, because of the financial crisis, thousands of private companies closed down, and the Chinese government announced plans to expand the public sector to take up the slack caused by the global financial crisis. In 2010, there were also approximately 10 million small businesses in China.

            In China, the two most important sectors of the economy have traditionally been agriculture and industry; the two essential sectors can employ 70 present of labor force and produce over 60 present of GDP. China is the world’s largest producer of rice and is amount of the principal sources of wheat, corn, tobacco, soybeans, peanuts, and cotton. China is also one of the world's largest producers of a number of industrial and mineral products, including cotton cloth, tungsten and so on.

International trade of China:

            China, the country with 1.2billion people and the world's fastest growing major economy, has been hailed as potentially the “market of all markets”. Now China is the second largest recipient of foreign capital (Next only to United State).

By the research in 2000, the total volume of China's exports was US$232 billion for just one year, accounting to the CLA World Fact-book. The main commodities of China are machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting goods, and mineral fuels. The United State is the biggest buyer of Chinese goods; they bought 21 present of China’s export. China also exports large amount of agricultural goods and manufactured goods, and industrial supplies and materials such as crude steel and chemicals account for about 50 percent of our exports. In 2000, China imports a total volume of US$197 billion, the main commodities China imports are machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel. The main resource of China come from Japan, Japan provides 20 present goods of Chinese import.

            China’s international trade has expanded steadily since the opening of the economy in

1979. Exports and imports have grown faster than world trade for more than 20 years and

China’s share in global trade has increased steadily since 1979. China has increased its presentation into advanced country markets. In modern society, China has already played an important role in Asian regional trade. China is now among the most important export destinations for other Asian countries, and amount of import is also at the top of Asian.

             China’s export base has diversified a lot during the last twenty years, from an initial heavy reliance on textiles and other light industry. In 1990s, the amount of light manufacturing accounted for more than 40 percent of China’s exports. A large part of the remaining exports was manufactured goods and machinery or transport. However, in recent years, China has made many gains in other exports categories including more sophisticated electronics, furniture, travel goods, and industrial supplies. For example, the part of China’s exports represented by machinery and transport increase from 17 percent in 1993to 41 percent in 2003, while the part of miscellaneous manufacturing declined from 42 percent to 28 percent.

Economic Relationship between China and American:

            In modern society, the US and China are probably the world's two largest economic counties in the world, so the relations between China and United State will be crucial to the future of world’s economic. As the whole, the relationship between two big countries is much better than before, more and more international between two countries are established in modern society. However, there are still some problems for the economics of two countries. US imports from China were overwhelmingly concentrated in the broad miscellaneous manufactures category, followed by machinery and transportation equipment. The goods Chinese exports to the US is over one billion dollars in ten more narrowly defined three digit SITC categories. Like toys, games, and sporting goods, footwear, women and girls coat, telecommunication equipment and so on. These imports are almost wholly labor-intensive manufactures, and economic theory suggests that this exerts downward pressure on the wages of import-competing domestic low-skilled labor, if production in such activities is actually carried out domestically.

            Now, the United State has begun to limited abilities to affect the development of the Chinese economy-the results of the major economic policy issues that China faces will be determined internally. For example: If the political leadership in China began to be afraid of centrifugal forces were pulling the country apart, there will be a retrenchment of economic reform. Then the Chinese government would be less responsive to the interests of foreigners. In this condition, there would probably not be a whole lot that foreigners could do to reverse such a tendency. Contrary the calls before to “contain” China, the goals of US policy toward China are to promote economic liberalization within China, and purse US commercial interests. Some policies which were made by United State will be influenced by the demands of a variety of domestic interests with their own particular agendas. As a whole, the US policy toward China is best to be regarded as a manifestation of competing interests in which no single goal predominates.

            In 1995, China joined in World Trade Organization (WTO), at that time, China has been one important member of WTO, and the international trade between was becoming more and more than before. And then China’s commitments will eliminate broad systemic barriers to USA exports, like limits on who can import goods and distribute them in China. On trading rights, the US-China deal ensures that both foreign-owned importers located in China and foreign companies exporting into China will be permitted trading rights. Now, America has become the largest trade partner for export shipments, which consumes about 21 present of global Chinese exports. At the same time, America products account for 7.5 present of imports into China. In this way, both China and United State can benefit from the international trade between two countries, and the speed of two countries’ development is also growing very fast.

Conclusion

            In my conclusion, in the last 30 year, China has already developed a lot in economic. Large amount of goods in different fields can be produced in China, like the agriculture goods, industry goods and so on. Many goods were export to other countries of the world, at the same time, China also import many goods what we need. Today, as the development of Chinese economic, China has already played an important role in current international trade. Although sometimes China has to face some problems like inflation, deflation, stagflation or financial crisis and so on, but we must admit that the economics of China is really improved. By economic communication with United States, both countries really benefit from the international trade between each other. Although, sometimes China and USA also make some special policies to protect the goods which are made by their own countries, so some economic conflicts are unavoidable. However, in 2005, after China join in World Trade Organization (WTO), the import goods and export goods between China and America is becoming more and more than before, and the economic communication between two countries in almost all the fields is also much more than before. So in my opinion, Chinese economic is developing in a high speed. China is trying to learn the advanced technology from each country of the world, especially America, the strongest country in the world. China is also good at absorbing the advanced experience of economic management, which is why China has already developed a lot in the current 30 years.

Works Cited:
1. http://www.transworldeducation.com/asia/china.htm
2. http://www.china-window.com/china_travel/china_tourism/brief-introduction-to-chi.shtml
3. http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/china.htm
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Outline of Final Paper

    Chinese Economic

   I.            Introduction of Chinese Economic:

As the development of science and the progress of our society, China has already changed a lot during the last twenty years. Much Chinese goods were sold to almost all the corner of the world. The economic communication between China and other countries has already become more and more than before. In the same time, China is also much stronger than what it was before.

    II.            The economic in China:

1.      The goods which are made in China has already sold to all the world, the communication between China can other countries is more and more than before.

2.      China also input many goods from other countries, like the computer software made in America, the cars and electricity good in Japan and so on.

 III.            The Economic Phenomenon what happens in China:

1.      Inflation: As the development in China, more and more money was earned by Chinese people, but we have to face the problems of inflation, because sometimes the price of some good increases so fast.

2.      Financial Crisis: To face the problem of financial crisis of the entire world, the government of China made many policies to solve this problem.

 IV.            The compare between Chinese Economic system and American Economic system:

1.      Different economic policies

2.      Different economic environment.

3.      Different economic problems they need to face.

    V.            Conclusion:

Although the economics of China is much better than before, but we still have some economic problems. Like the inflation, financial crisis or high unemployment rate and so on, so we also need to try our best to make our economic and our like to be much better than before.

My final topic

I want my final topic is about the communication between China and other country, especially the economic communication. I think the international trade between China and other countries is a good to write, so my topic of my final project is the economic communication between China and other countries in the worlds.

The third interview winner

            In my opinion, the winner of the third interview in Chenlong Mao, I think his assignment is finished very well in our class. He really did best for the third interview; it is very comfortable to read his third interview.

            From his Preparation of the third interview, I know that I have already accumulate enough experience from the first and second interview, he never feel nervous during the third interview. What is more important, we know that he really did enough research about Singapore, a modern country in Asia. So it is obvious that he can do the interview very well because he has already known enough information and knowledge about Singapore before the third interview. At the same time, he use his cell phone to be the recorder and record all the process of the third interview, so I think his preparation of the third interview is very well.

            The second most important part of his interview is the description of the last interview; I can feel that he is so confident during the third interview. Everything went well smoothly, and the atmosphere is also very good. The process of the entire third interview is very comfortable to him because he had already accumulated enough knowledge about the Singapore. In his opinion, the third interview is also very perfect, and it is good for us to learn something in his last interview.

            Although he didn’t write the country report in the last interview, but he had already finished it in his first and second interview, and I believe that he have already accumulated enough knowledge for the Singapore.

            The most important part of his last interview is that the process of the interview. He almost ask thirty questions during his third interview, and in the 30 questions, almost all the questions are good questions, it is hard for me to find one bad questions in them. From those questions and the answers of his interviewee, I can know all the information what I want to know about Singapore, that is why I think Chenlong Mao is the winner in the third interview.

Third interview result of the class

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Interview 2 winner

In my opinion, I think the second interview from Zhe Wang is the best in our class, his preparation and the description include enough details about the Pakistan. In his preparation, he tells us all the process that what he do for preparation the second interview. I think after the first interview, he has already had enough experience to prepare the second interview.

After the propagating of the second interview, he begins to write that the describing of his second interview. In the part of describing, I know he is not as nervous as his first time. During his second interview, he began to compare the different between China and Pakistan, base on the information of his own country and the compare between two countries, he can know more about Pakistan.

And then he began to introduce Pakistan, this is his research about this country, by searching online and reading lots of books about Pakistan. At first, he began to introduce the culture about the Pakistan, from his introduction of the Pakistan; we know that the Pakistan is one old country in Asia, and then we know the literature about that country, we know the Urdu literature and English literature of South Asia we can find in the Pakistan. After the introduction of the literature, we know that sports in that country, the national sports in that country is hockey, after that, he know that the defense day prepared, it is amazing.

The most important part of the second interview is the country report of the Pakistan, it is about thirty questions in his second interview report, from those thirty questions and the answers from his interviewee, and we can know almost all the information and the details about the interviewee himself. On the other hand, I know enough information about the Pakistan, the old country. Although the history of Pakistan is not so long as China, but I still like to read his interview two.

Interview two record of Class

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My third interview

My third interivew

Preparation:

            This interview is my third interview; it is also my last interview. So I will try my best to finish it as good as possible. I believe that after two times of interview, I have already accumulated much experience, I believe the last interview must be better than the first two interviews. I also prepare the recorder and listen to the first and second interview again and again. After listening to these interviews, I found that I still have much disadvantage that I need to change, my English pronouncement still need to improve. After practicing the interview with some of my friends, I make an appointment with Kevin, one of my best friends from Brazil. We are all familiar with each other, so I want to choice him to become my last interviewee. Then I made an appointment with him in the same place of the library, I print my question list and give him one of them before the interview. I hope this interview will be much better than the first two interviews.

Description:

            This time, it is hard for me to find a Japanese student again, so I want to change interviewee from another country. Brazil is one of the best choice, because I like this country, the people in this country is nice enough and active enough, and the soccer game in Brazil is very popular in Brazil, most people play very well, that is why I like Brazil so much, because I also like to play soccer. My the questions of my third interview is almost the same as the second one, I ask him something about why he choice to study in America, his family, the religion in Brazil and the essential festival and food in Brazil. This time, I didn’t feel any nervous any more, I feel so good to ask the questions of my interview, because I have already practice the interview for a long time. I believe that this interview is real better than my first one and my second one. My experiences of the first two interviews help me finish it very well. I think I really receive a lot after three times of interviews, next time, if I have chance, I will interview different people from different countries, because it is beneficial for me.

Country Report:

Location:  Eastern South America bordering Argentina 1,224 km, Bolivia 3,400 km, Colombia
1,643 km, French Guiana 673 km, Guyana 1,119 km, Paraguay 1,290 km, Peru 1,560 km, Suriname 597 km, Uruguay 985 km, Venezuela 2,200 km

Capital:   Brazilia

Climate:  mostly tropical, but temperate in south

Population:  184,101,109

Ethnic Make-up: white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed white and
black 38%, black 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1%

Religions:  Roman Catholic (nominal) 80%

Government:  federative republic

                     

Race and people in Brazil:

Brazil is a mixture of races and ethnicities, many original Portuguese settlers’ married native women, and then they create a new race, the name of the new race is “mestizos”. The family of Brazil is very large, and the extended family is quite close. The individual derives a social network and assistance in times of need from the family. Nepotism is considered a positive thing, since it implied that employing people one knows and trusts is of primary importance.

Food in Brazil:

The Portuguese arrived in Brazil in 1500 and brought their tastes and styles of cooking with them. They brought sugar, citrus fruits, and many sweets that are still used for desserts and holidays. The Brazilian “sweet tooth” was developed through the influence of the Europeans. Brazilians us many eggs, fruits, spices, and sugar to make sweet treats, such as ambrosia. They use savory seasonings such s parsley and garlic.

    

Brazil Scenery:

Brazil Scenery:

            Brazil is best known for its incredible beaches, world-class surfing and vibrant nightlife, Florianopolis is also blessed with natural beauty and scenery which words alone cannot describe. Florianopolis nature includes tremendously varied topography such as stunning coastlines, powerful waterfalls, expansive sand dunes, large lagoons, deep and winging forests, guarded coves and natural tide pools.

                 

Brazil Soccer:

The history of soccer in Brazil really starts in 1930, when they participated in the first World Cup and despite being knocked out in the first stages, the media coverage of the World Cup brought soccer in the light and in the eyes of every young Brazilian. Now, almost all the young people in Brazil like to play soccer, soccer is their favorite sports. And the Brazil national soccer team is also one of the strongest teams in the world.

  

Work Sited:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Carnival

http://www.us-passport-service-guide.com/brazil-religion.html

http://www.foodbycountry.com/Algeria-to-France/Brazil.html

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/brazil-country-profile.html

http://www.soccer-fans-info.com/history-of-soccer-in-brazil.html

My third interview:

Interviewer: Longfei Ren

English 191

Interviewee: Kevin (His English name)

Interviewee's country of origin: Brazil

Interview date: 11/6/2010

Me: Hello, my name is Longfei Ren, I am doing a project for class English 191. I need to interview

Kevin: Sure, of course.

Me: Thank you. Could you please tell me a little about yourself, for example: Where are you from?  How old are you? How long have you been here?

Kevin: OK, I come from Brazil; I have already been here for about two years. I am 22 now.

Me: What is your major?

Kevin: Finance

Me: Can I know something about your family? Like how many people in your family, their jobs and how are your relations?

Kevin: Yes, of course. I have one old brother and one young sister in my family, so there are five people in my family. My old brother has already graduated from a big university in Brazil; he is a picture designer of a small company. My father is a worker and my mother is a doctor. I think everyone in my family have good relationship with each other, we all like to learn with each other and help with each others. My brother, sister and I all respect our parents very much. We like to play with them and help them do some housework. And sometimes my parents also try to communicate with us about our daily life and our study, so I like my family.

Me: Why you choice to study in America?

Kevin: Because I love America, I like culture, the technology and the education in America. There are many famous university in America, the academic system in America is so good, I like the life in America, I can make many friends from different countries when I am studying here, that is why I want to study in America.

Me: Do you want to go back to your home country directly when you graduate from SCSU?

Kevin: Maybe not, because I want to find a job in America and work for a period of time. I like America, it is a good place for us to live and I can earn more money in America than in Brazil, I want to earn some money and then I will apply the graduate school.  In my mind, I think it is necessary for a boy like me to receive the higher level education and then I can get a good job and have a good future. On the other hand, if I get a good job and earn much money, I can invite my parents to go to America and live here, I think it is good for them because the environment in America is good.

ME: Can you tell me what do you think is the most important festival in Brazil?

Kevin: The Festival of carnival is the most important festival in Brazil, this festival is also very famous in the world.

Me: How do you celebrate the festival of carnival, can you tell me some traditional custom in this festival?

Kevin: Every year, almost all the people in Brazil will celebrate the carnival festival. There are four days of the carnival, during these four days, all the people in Brazil wear their most beautiful cloth and go to the street in Brazil, they sing together and dance together, no matter if they sing well or dance well. All the shop on the street will close, because the owner of the shops will also go to the street to sing and dance. Samba is the most famous dance in our country; many people in Brazil will dance Samba. Samba is the traditional dance in Brazil, it has the history for hundreds years. On those four days, different cities of different place will make different public activities to celebrate this festival.

Me: Can you tell me the main religions in your country?

Kevin: I think Brazil religion is the most important religion.

Me: How about you, do you have religion?

Kevin: Yes, I believe Brazil Religion.

Me: How about food, can you tell me some traditional food in your country?

Kevin: The food of different place in our country is a little different, sweet food is very famous in our country, we like to make some cake with sugar and fruit, ambrosia is one of the famous foods in Brazil. And the rice, beans, meat and fish are also very popular in Brazil, for me, I like to eat beef very much, and I also like to eat some rice.

Me: Can you tell me the weather in Japan; it is also as cold as Minnesota in winter?

Kevin: Of course, the weather in Brazil is much hotter than Minnesota; we have more rain in Brazil. The summer is much hotter and the winter is also warmer than Minnesota. We can surf on the wave in April. In the winter, there is no snow, so it is hard for us to play the snow fight.

Me: OK, Can you tell me the meaning of eye contact in your country?

Kevin: The eye contact? The eye contact in my country means you have already paid enough attention to the people who you are speaking with. So it is meaningful for you to keep eye contact with the people who you are speaking with. Especially the adult or the people who is older than you. So I always keep eye contact with other people. For me, I also like to keep eye contact with the girl I like. It also means respect to the people I like. When I make an appointment with her, sometimes we can keep eye contact for a long time, without speaking one word. And the atmosphere is very good, we all enjoy with the keeping of our eye contact. It is so enjoyable; I think the eye contact also means love.

Me: Ok, another question. Does your family play an important role for you to choice your wife in the future?

Kevin: Sure, in my country, many families help their children to choice their wife or husband, their advice is very important for their children to choice their spouse. But in modern society, many young people want to choice their spouse by themselves; some families will respect their choice. However, their family also plays an important role in their choice.

Me: Do you have a girlfriend now?

Kevin: Yes, I have.

Me: How do you date in your daily life?

Kevin: We like to study together and play together. She is also studying in SCSU, so it is easy for us to date, we almost date every day. Sometimes we cook together, she cook very well, I can just help her do some preparation for the cooking, for example, help her cut some meat or some vegetable. We also like to go to see some movie together or play some sports together. Anyway, as long as I stay with her, I will feel very happy.

Me: Will you go home during Christmas?

Kevin: No way, the winter holiday is very short, just 20 days, I can’t do anything if I go back home. So I choice to stay here and company with my girlfriend, I will call my parents frequently and communicate with them, but I really don’t want to go back in so short time.

Me: Do you like some sports or some games?

Kevin: My favorite sports is soccer, in Brazil, almost all the boys like to play soccer. I began to play soccer when I was a little child; I always play with some of my friends and some of my classmates or schoolmates. Now, I have already played very well, if you have time, we can play together, I think it is good for our healthy.

Me: Can you tell me something different between Brazil can USA?

Kevin: I think the biggest difference between two countries is the weather; the weather in different states of America is totally different, because America is very big. But in Brazil, the weather in different place is almost the same. On the other hand, America is strong in many fields, like technology, science, education and so on, Brazil still have many things to study from America, I think it is necessary for us if we want to improve the level of our life.

Me: Ok, these are all the questions I want to ask, thank you very much.

Kevin: You are welcome.