CHINA

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

• Chinese culture has the longest continuous history
• The Mongoloid people lived in China for thousands of years
• The first outside influences reached China by sea in 1557
• The last Chinese dynasties were destroyed in 1912
• Deng Xiaoping modernized the country when he came to power in 1976

REGIONS

• China has six regions
• Southwest And South Central China
• North China
• Northwest and Northeast China
• East China

CLIMATE

• The summers are hot and dry, and the winters are freezing cold
• Southern China has a humid-tropical climate
• Northern China has a humid-continental climate
• Northeastern China has a humid-continental climate

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Iron and tin
• Oil and salt
• Coal and lead
• Copper and zinc
• Gold

MAJOR INDUSTRIES

• Manufacturing
• Technology
• Mining
• Construction
• Power

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

• China has a Communist form of government
• In Communist governments, private land ownership has no meaning
• Socialism is needed to make a truly communistic state
• All members depend equally on whatever the society produces
• The President of China is Xi Jinping

MAJOR LANDFORMS

• Some of China's mountains include the Himalayas, Kunlun Shan, and Tien Shan
• Mt. Everest is on China and Nepal's border
• Some plateaus include the Tibetan, Loess, and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateaus
• China has some deserts, including the Gobi and Taklimakan Deserts

MAJOR LANDFORMS CONT.

• China's plains include the Manchurian, North China, and Yangtze Plains
• China also has a depression, called the Turpan Depression
• China has two major rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow River

AGRICULTURE

• Agriculture is a vital industry in China, employing over 300 million farmers
• China is the world's leading producer of pigs, chickens, and eggs
• China's crops include rice, millet, wheat, soybean, corn
• They also include potatoes, tobacco, sugar beets, and oilseeds
• China also has a lot of fish

OTHER

• China practices Taoism, Buddhism, lslamic, Protestantism, Catholicism
• China did not invent fortune cookies
• Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times have been banned in China
• The world's first paper money was created in China
• Over 35 million people in China still live in caves