China today

Nearly 40 years after Deng Xiaoping's first reform, China has become one of the leading economic power of the world with a yearly average growth rate of 9%.

* People, culture and education

         - 1.3 billion inhabitants (25% aged under 14, and 7% over 65)
         - average unemployment rate in towns : 10%
         - Birth rate : 16‰ / Infantile death rate : 27‰
         - main religions: Taoism, Buddhism (+ Islam, Christianism)
         - education:
         * reading and writing rate : 82% of the people
         * 40 millions graduate students per year / 1.5 millions engineers

* Geography and infrastructure

         - area: 9.6 million km2
         - 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions et 2 special administrative regions
         - 5 special economic zones
         - 1997 - 2002: development of 500 000 km of roads and 20 000 km of motorways
         - 2002 - 2005: building of 10 new airports

* Socialist market economy

         - currency : Yuan
         - GDP : 1150 billion US$ (world rank : 6 th
          - natural resources: coal, iron, oil, natural gas, aluminium, lead, zinc... + world's lagest hydroelectrical power potential.
         - yearly average growth: 7.5% in 2003
         - industrial yearly averaeg growth : 9.9% in 2001
         - working people: 700 millions (50% in agriculture / 23% in industry)
         - 8 million companies with 99% of small businesses
         - exports: USA 21% , Europe 15.2%
         - imports: Japan 18.5% , Europe 14.1%, USA 10.3%

 

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