Population According to a United Nations estimate, in 1998 the population reached 796. 000 residents (it was 772,655 at the 1996 census), thus confirming the slow decline in population growth rates. In fact, the difference between the birth rate (still over...
Southwestern Pacific archipelago, independent state since 1970. In 1986, 714,000 residents were registered, more than double in 1956 (the annual growth rate remains very high: 24.5 ‰), which rose to 736,000 according to a 1990 estimate. The contrast between the indigenous...
Fiji is an island state in the South Pacific Ocean, with its capital city Suva, consisting of about 320 islands. The F Islands were discovered in 1643 by the Dutch navigator A. Tasman and later explored by the English Cook and...
In 1956 there were 345,737 residents, of which 148,134 Fijians: 4422 Rotumani, 5320 other Pacific islanders, 169,403 Indians, 6402 Europeans, 7810 Euronesians (European mestizos), 4155 Chinese and Chinese mestizos. Population growth is around 4% per year, and is worrying above all...
Fiji is an island state of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific made up of 320 islands, of which about a hundred are inhabited, and over 500 islets; it is located between 16 ° and 20 ° lat. S (with the exception of...
Archipelago formed by almost 250 islands (and by numerous coral reefs) located in the Pacific Ocean at approximately between 16 ° and 20 ° S., 177 ° E. and 178 ° W, at 3400 km. approximately north-east of Sydney and 2200...
The transition to the market economy The transition of China to the market economy has created embarrassment among the supporters of the so-called shock therapy, badly tested by other countries that have taken the same path. The process of transformation of...
During the decade 1949-59, the new government of the People’s Republic of China (in Chinese Chung – hua Jen – min Kung – ho – kuo), established in Beijing on October 1, 1949 under the presidency of Mao Tse-tung, faced the grandiose task of rebuilding the Chinese state that had...
In the same years in which prices were lowering, the reform of large state-owned enterprises proceeded in forced stages, which in practical terms meant the expulsion of nearly 20 million people from their traditional jobs. State owned enterprises (SOEs)) were microcosms, equipped within...
Development and growth Within the confines of today’s China, at the beginning of the Common Era about 70 million people lived (out of a world total estimated at 250 million), 60 of which in China proper. In the 7th century, when...
The years 1960-1975 see China engaged in a great political-ideological struggle; this determines, unlike the previous period, a lesser creative activity from a strictly quantitative point of view. During the so-called “Great Leap Forward” movement, for example, there was talk of...
Ethnic distribution According to APARENTINGBLOG, the territorial distribution of the residents tends to coincide with the ethnic distribution: the eastern regions are those inhabited by the properly Chinese (Han) population, which corresponds to about 92% of the total, while the ‘national...
Economy The Third Plenum of the CPC, held in November 2013, set the general lines of economic policy under the Xi-Li administration. The problems addressed are largely related to the need to entrust the market with a decisive role in the...
According to ALLUNITCONVERTERS, the years following the death of Mao Zedong saw the progressive affirmation of an economic policy with largely innovative connotations, aimed at giving the country, in the name of the four modernizations announced in 1977 – agriculture, industry,...
According to YOUREMAILVERIFIER, the assessment of the progress of the Chinese economy, which are judged relevant on the basis of partial observations, is made difficult by the lack of reliable statistical indications subsequent to those published by the government in 1960....
According to THEMOTORCYCLERS, China represents probably one of the most successful cases of economic reforms of the 21st century carried out by adopting an unprecedented model of development based on a paradoxical mix of controlled capitalism, rigid political direction, granting of...
Group work extends to engineering and construction activities, where construction committees formed by architects, engineers, technicians, workers and students are already organized in the planning stage. According to RELATIONSHIPSPLUS, the intense construction work currently underway throughout the China involves the construction...
Archeology has led to further discoveries in China over the last decade. Excavations conducted in Shi-hui-pa, Yunnan province, unearthed the remains of a ramapithecus skull in 1980., a monkey that would have lived 6 million years ago. The oldest finds from the early Neolithic were made...
According to PROZIPCODES, this sector of the economy still absorbs four-fifths of the workforce, despite the advancement of other activities. Its development was led by the government first through the reform of the social organization, which led to the popular communes,...
Even in China, as in the USSR, the majority of the population is made up of peasants (it is estimated that 87% of the residents derive their resources from agricultural work), but in this monsoon country, where the cultivation of fields...
According to PETSINCLUDE, the crisis of spring 1989 was followed by a revival of the campaigns against corruption and crime. From an economic point of view, the policy of opening up to the market was confirmed, albeit with some corrections aimed...
The origins and ancient literature. – According to topschoolsintheusa, Bulgarian literature is both the oldest and the youngest of the Slavic literatures. The oldest, if we take into account its first written monuments, which date back to the time of the...
According to topschoolsintheusa, the Danish language belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, and with the languages of Sweden, Norway and Iceland forms a group called “North Germanic” or simply “Nordic”. The Danish linguistic territory in the earliest...
A very important part in Egyptian education was the wisdom literature, which contained the teachings (ś b q̂ ‘je) that a person of grave authority imparted to a pupil. The oldest should be the “teachings of Ptahḥq̂tpe”, found in Thebes and...
The proclamation of the republic The main social and political problem, starting in 1860, was the issue of slavery. The country pressed for its abolition, while the landlord class opposed it, and when, after a series of partial measures, the complete...
Religion. – The town had a first and rudimentary organization, immediately after the foundation of Buenos Aires (1536) by Julián Carasco. But only in 1570 Pope Pius V erected the diocese of Tucumán, whose residence was subsequently transferred to San Miguel...
The period that opens with the collapse of democracy (1939) under the impact of the civil war and the advent of Franco’s dictatorship, which forced the most eminent personalities of the Spanish musical world into exile, led to a profound involution...
Religion. – For the evangelization of Poland, as for the victory of Roman Catholicism against the reformed currents, see below: History. Here it will suffice to underline once again the importance that the religious factor also had for the civil history...
The constitution of the territory, the surface morphology resulting from the long labor of the endogenous and external forces, the climatic differences lead to divide Mexico into various natural regions. The coastal region of the Atlanticfirst includes the strip of Tamaulipas,...
The Swedish language belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family and, with the languages of Denmark, Norway and Iceland, forms the Nordic or North Germanic group. Swedish is currently spoken: in the Kingdom of Sweden (except the northern...
