Country Research

1. What country do you represent?

China
2. Who are your neighboring countries? (List All)
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia,
Nepal, Pakistan, Russia (northeast), Russia (northwest), Tajikistan, Vietnam
3. Which natural resources exist within your countrys borders?
coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese,
molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium,
hydropower potential (world's largest), arable land
4. What percentage of your land is listed as arable land (farmable land)?
11.3%
5. What are some of your countrys environmental issues?
air pollution (greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal produces acid
rain; China is the world's largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels;
water shortages, particularly in the north; water pollution from untreated wastes; deforestation;
estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic
development; desertification; trade in endangered species
6. What ethnic groups are present within your country?
Han Chinese 91.6%, Zhuang 1.3%, other (includes Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia,
Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai and other nationalities)
7.1%
7. What languages are spoken in your country?
Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue
(Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan,
Hakka dialects, minority languages
8. What religions are practiced in your country?
Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, folk religion 21.9%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish <
0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52.2%
9. What is your countrys
a. population growth rate?
0.43%
b. birthrate?
12.4 births/1,000 population
c. net migration?
-0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population
d. infant mortality rate?
total: 12.2 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 12.4 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 12 deaths/1,000 live births
e. fertility rate?

1.6 children born/woman

f. obesity adult prevalence rate?
7.3%
g. Literacy rate?
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 96.4%
male: 98.2%
female: 94.5%
h. GDP (purchase power parity)?
$19.39 trillion (2015 est.)
$18.14 trillion (2014 est.)
$16.91 trillion (2013 est.)
note: data are in 2015 US dollars
i. GDP real growth rate?
6.9%
7.3%
7.7%
j. Per capita GDP?
$14,100
$13,300
$12,400

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k. Labor force?
806.3 million
l. Unemployment rate?
4.1% (2014), 4% (2015)
m. Percentage of population living under the poverty line?
6.1%
n. Inflation rate?
2.1% (2014), 1.5% (2015)
o. Industrial production growth rate?
6%
10. Does your country have a budget surplus or deficit?
Deficit (-3.4% of GDP)
11. List your countrys top five agricultural products.
Rice
Wheat
Potatoes
Corn
Peanuts
12. List your countrys top five industries.
Mining and oil processing
Iron
Steel
Aluminum

5. coal
13. How much money does your country make on exports?
$2.143 trillion (2015)
$2.244 trillion (2014)
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14. List your countrys top five export partners.

U.S.
Hong Kong
Japan
South Korea
Create a separate Google Drawing, import a world map image. Draw lines from your country to
your export partners on the map using blue lines.

15. How much money does your country spend on imports?

$1.576 trillion (2015)
$1.809 trillion (2014)

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16. List your countrys top five import partners.

South Korea
U.S.
Japan
Germany
Australia
On the GoogleDrawing map that you created. Draw lines from your import partners to your
country on the map in red.

17. What is your countrys balance of trade (subtract imports from exports)?
4.7%
18. What is your countrys external debt?
$958.3 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
$959.5 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
19. How much electricity does your country

a. Produce? 5.56 trillion kWh

b. Consume? 5.523 trillion kWh
20. How much crude oil does your country
a. Produce? 4.189 million bbl/day
b. Import? 6.167 million bbl/day
21. How many telephone main lines are in use in your country?

22. How many mobile cellular device lines are in use in your country?
1,205.738 million
23. How many internet users are there in your country?
687.845 million - 50.3%
24. How many airports are there in your country?
507
25. What surprised you about your country?
I did not know that they grow some of the same things we grow here in the U.S.