What is China’s population?
1.4 billion
What did Mao Zedong tell people to do?
Move back to the countryside
What is a dawei?
Employment center surrounded by housing and other services
When did China have the comunist regime launch massive programs of reconstruction and reform?
1950s-1976
What did Deng Xiaoping do?
Create a socialist market economy
- Opened china
- Created special economic zones, open cities, open costal areas
What are the 3 types of chinese cities?
- Preindustrial/traditional
- Colonial
- Special economic zones
What were preindustrial/traditional cities?
- Ceneterd on agriculturally rich hinterland
- Along major transprot routes
- Planned
- Carefully selested geometry
- Walled
- Self reliance
What is a Hutong?
A type of narrow street or alley formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences
What is the population of Beijing?
22.5 million
What are the 3 original parts of Beijing?
- Imperial palace
- Inner City
- Outer city
Where did early urbanization take place in china?
- Major river valleys
- Close to water
- Close to cultivable land
What were the 4 main regions of early urbanization?
- Mesopotamia
- Nile valley
- Indus river
- Huang He valley
- Mesoamerica
What were colonial cities?
- Interdependent on outside world
- Next to important transport source
- Unplanned
What is the population of Hong Kong ?
7.9 million
What are the 3 historical periods of hong kong?
- Independent
- Colonial
- Chinese
What was the independent period for Hong Kong?
330 AD: outpost of Guangzhou
What was the colonial period for Hong Kong?
- 1840: opium wars - offshore island to british
- 1842: treaty of nanking - hong kong island to British
- 1860: convention of peking: kowloon to British
- 1898: 2nd convention of peking - acquired new territiories for 99 years
What was the chinese period for Hong Kong?
1997-present
- Lease on new territories completed
- Special administrative region of China
What is the economy of Hong Kong?
- Employment concentrated in services
- Consumer goods, banking and insurance, toursim
What is the population of Shanghai?
30.1 million
What is Shanghais economy?
- Historically China’s leading manufacturing center
- Attempting to develpo light industrial sector
- Since 1990 international banks increased in importance
What are the chinese special economic zones?
- Interdependent on outside world
- Next to important transport source
What is Shenzen?
- The modern proces of urbanization
- A rural area can become urbanized quite quickly in the modern world
- Gateway to south China
What are SEZs based on?
- Investor incentives
- Cheap labor
- Low tax
- Preferential customers
- Minimal bureaucracy
