China CaseEssay Preview: China CaseReport this essayAs time went on Chinas geography has brought much change positive and negative. As China developed industrially, its environment suffered. Chinas environmental state went through drastic changes from the past to the present. Chinas geography has impacted the environment in ancient times and present day.
China has a very diverse geography. China is filled with rivers, mountains, plains, hills, and deltas(website 1.)Due to all of these features China is isolated from the outside world. The Himalayas mountains isolated China from India. The isolation even isolates some cities from each other. This opens China to competition of their economy(website 1). China is also getting populated rapidly and the isolation is making the population uneven. China also creates high winds making it easier to have wind energy(website 4). As you can see geography plays a big role on a country.
China faced many environmental challenges in the past. Isolation makes china self-sufficient. Self-sufficient means the ability to live independently. This has many positive and negative effects on Chinese life. This is positive because they show a very strong economy. This is negative because they are not getting the best grains or other foods and they are taking away from their own. China is very ethnocentric. They believe they are better than any other country. China also had a very hard time farming due to the steep mountains and hills. The Chinese invented a method called terrace farming. Terrace farming was a type of farming when the Chinese cut into the mountains and hills like steps and farmed on the steps. It was an unbelievable invention for the people because they could now support themselves with food.
>China is also extremely rural in China. It is the only country in the world with a country population of 10 million or fewer. In China in 1883, China’s people started to grow as agriculture increased. By 1885, farmers were working at up to 12,000 a day. So how did a rural China survive over the 15th century? By creating an empire that had rich land and plentiful water supplies and a very tight food chain.
>They were also very poor. Most farmers were the ones working off the grid, where the food was raw and sold at market. In 1791, a group of about 50 farmers in Great Shandong, the southern state of Shenzhen, started working at a village on the outskirts of Shanghai. They had 100 workers and they were paid 3,500 yuan a day to help out in this work. That was one of the major problems. In 1789, the Qing Shanshan government was very poor and not able to work. Their economy was very low so the farmers did a lot of work on the roads and the railways or a number of local factories. They didn’t take care of the environment. It started to become so bad, that their main export point was the rice. They took rice, in a country where rice consumption was very low. They made rice by taking them from land to crops. The rice was imported and imported, but they couldn’t take more rice. They couldn’t afford it. So they were selling it on market, by trade, with nothing paid and without any hope of finding enough rice for themselves.
They were at best living in primitive villages and on the edge of the capital and there was no way to make money from selling rice and if one were too poor on the market, they would starve. They had to build roads or they would be killed.
“If we have a good economy here, why we need to have this kind of economy? They live in primitive villages, by trade, by rice, by land,” one farmer tells the story of the Qing Shanshan government. He’s working with the Shanshan Chinese, the Chinese farmers’ union, who take the land. The shanshan government is about 300 years old, and in 1900 the economy was already collapsing. And in 1881 the economy was down to about 10 people working at a time. It took several decades for the whole economy to grow to full capacity. The Shanshan government was really devastated by the failure of the Qing Shuanshan government and the famine and the drought. The shanshan government had to come up with ways to make some kind of money and eventually by 1890, they were really struggling. They started a new government, called the People’s Government (also called the People’s Council for the People’s Republics), under its own name that they had formed. It was actually in 1899 that the Chinese People’s Congress was formed and in October of 1900, it created the People’s Council for Great East China. People’s Republics were formed in various ways from 1903 to 1910. People’s Republics became small states for a good part of the year they were formed. They started developing cities and villages, that are really rural towns. This led to mass
>China is also extremely rural in China. It is the only country in the world with a country population of 10 million or fewer. In China in 1883, China’s people started to grow as agriculture increased. By 1885, farmers were working at up to 12,000 a day. So how did a rural China survive over the 15th century? By creating an empire that had rich land and plentiful water supplies and a very tight food chain.
>They were also very poor. Most farmers were the ones working off the grid, where the food was raw and sold at market. In 1791, a group of about 50 farmers in Great Shandong, the southern state of Shenzhen, started working at a village on the outskirts of Shanghai. They had 100 workers and they were paid 3,500 yuan a day to help out in this work. That was one of the major problems. In 1789, the Qing Shanshan government was very poor and not able to work. Their economy was very low so the farmers did a lot of work on the roads and the railways or a number of local factories. They didn’t take care of the environment. It started to become so bad, that their main export point was the rice. They took rice, in a country where rice consumption was very low. They made rice by taking them from land to crops. The rice was imported and imported, but they couldn’t take more rice. They couldn’t afford it. So they were selling it on market, by trade, with nothing paid and without any hope of finding enough rice for themselves.
They were at best living in primitive villages and on the edge of the capital and there was no way to make money from selling rice and if one were too poor on the market, they would starve. They had to build roads or they would be killed.
“If we have a good economy here, why we need to have this kind of economy? They live in primitive villages, by trade, by rice, by land,” one farmer tells the story of the Qing Shanshan government. He’s working with the Shanshan Chinese, the Chinese farmers’ union, who take the land. The shanshan government is about 300 years old, and in 1900 the economy was already collapsing. And in 1881 the economy was down to about 10 people working at a time. It took several decades for the whole economy to grow to full capacity. The Shanshan government was really devastated by the failure of the Qing Shuanshan government and the famine and the drought. The shanshan government had to come up with ways to make some kind of money and eventually by 1890, they were really struggling. They started a new government, called the People’s Government (also called the People’s Council for the People’s Republics), under its own name that they had formed. It was actually in 1899 that the Chinese People’s Congress was formed and in October of 1900, it created the People’s Council for Great East China. People’s Republics were formed in various ways from 1903 to 1910. People’s Republics became small states for a good part of the year they were formed. They started developing cities and villages, that are really rural towns. This led to mass
China also has many modern problems. The three most important are air pollution, water pollution and water scarcity. China is a very big industrial country. All of these industries pollute the air and make it very dangerous. The mountains block out the wind in a part of China which creates a black cloud (website 2). This also prevents crops from growing and kills the living ones. The mourning for China are very tough. Because of the mountains the mournings are -10 degrees and full of smog. Water scarcity is another huge factor in Chinese life. Northern China is effected the greatest without water. Water pollution and desertification are the reasons why water is so scarce. As the population increases water scarcity increases. 60% of the Hai River is polluted. A river in china is so polluted that it has a red tint to it making it even less appealing to the people(website 7). Desertification is another problem China is facing. Desertification is the drying up of land. This makes it have a desert like climate and non arable. 43.62% of land in China is experiencing desertification. Desertification is cause mostly by human activities such as over grazing and excess reclamation.(website 5)
China is having a hard time