Post on 13-Jan-2016
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.