Davon Holmes 10/10/2012 Sociology China China is the world’s most populated country with the population of 1.3 billion people. Since there were so many people in China they had to think about a way to control population so this is where the one-child policy was made. It officially restricts married‚ urban couples to having only one child‚ while allowing exemptions for several cases‚ including twins. This policy was introduced in 1978 and initially applied to first-born children from 1979. The policy
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China is one of the world’s four ancient civilizations with a time-honored‚ recorded history. The history of China reaches back over 5‚000 years. China covers an area of 9.6 million square kilometers and its continental coastline is 18‚000 kilometers. Its population is over 1.3 billion people. China has created a culture rich in art and philosophy. China is the home of the inventions of amazing products and technologies such as silk‚ papermaking‚ movable-type printing‚ gunpowder‚ and calligraphy
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About LED Lighting in China LED lighting‚ also known as solid state lighting‚ is a semiconductor-based lighting technology. LEDs emit light based on the electroluminescence principle‚ which gives them high luminous efficacy. Also‚ LEDs are compact in size and are more power efficient as well as brighter than traditional lighting technologies such as incandescent and fluorescent lamps. Owing to these advantages‚ customers prefer to use LEDs for general lighting applications. In China‚ LEDs are gaining
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Environmental problems of China As we know‚ China is a big country that has a lot of resources‚ and has continuously developed itself. However‚ the environmental problems that have troubled us many years are big and unavoidable social problems. Some problems are atmospheric pollution‚ water pollution‚ waste pollution‚ land desertification‚ sand disaster problem‚ soil erosion and destruction of biological diversity. Our environmental problems are becoming more and more serious. We should realize
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2012 China’s HDI rose by 2.0% annually from 0.407 to 0.699 today‚ which gives the country a rank of 101 out of 187 countries with comparable data. The HDI of East Asia and the Pacific as a region increased from 0.432 in 1980 to 0.683 today‚ placing China above the regional average. 1.4 1. Global warming has been a controversial subject for decades. It is inevitable for an economy that wishes to grow in the short term as the efficient‚ non-renewable resources emit greenhouse gases whereas in
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China Case Study 1 trading with china in 2007 container ship Emma Maersk brought 11‚000 containers to the UK for the Christmas market this delivered 45000tons of consumer goods from china & is the latest stage in switching manufacturing from Europe to USA and china in 2006 Felixstone port in Suffolk reported an increase of 16% in Chinese imports‚ since 1980 30% increase‚ importing £22.8billion worth of goods in 2009 China’s growth in manufacturing means Europe consumers can purchase cheaper goods
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Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China: A Reconsideration of Gender‚ Economics‚ and Meaning in Social Causation Brown et al preface their data by stating “It has long been assumed that before 1949 Chinese society was hypergamous —that most women married to a “better” household than the one in which they were born.” Despite this belief‚ they describe “In our sample of 7‚314 rural women living in Sichuan‚ Northern‚ Central‚ and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century
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.:: India-China Relations ::. | | | I. Introduction: 1. Rise of India and China Changing Global Balance:According to Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew‚ the rise of India and China was changing the global balance. India and China together account for 40 per cent of the world’s working age population and 19 per cent of the global economy in PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) terms‚ according to Mr. Lee. In the next 20 years their collective share of the global economy could
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According to several estimates by law agencies in China‚ the rate of children working and breaking the laws of the Employment of Children Regulations has decreased over the last fifty years. However‚ these numbers are highly inaccurate as there are no official and formal data. Throughout the history of China‚ child labor was not always viewed as a negative social construction‚ it was actually viewed as a positive task to benefit
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