Macau presents its visitors with a unique Sino-Portuguese heritage: traditional Chinese temples, baroque cathedrals, old forts, a kind of Macanese cuisine. But most of the tourists still come here for entertainment: three-quarters of visitors gamble in 11 luxury casinos, visit dog...
Hong Kong, like a magnet, annually attracts millions of tourists from all over the world. It amazes with an abundance of skyscrapers, a scattering of flashing hieroglyphs on countless signs, a continuous stream of cars, an unthinkable crowd of people on...
China is a multifaceted, but at the same time united country in its diversity. Here you can see everything: picturesque traditional villages, modern metropolises, ancient monasteries, the vast expanses of the Gobi Desert, snow-capped mountain peaks, corners of nature protected in...
The capital The capital of China is Beijing. The local time PRC time zone: GMT +8 (+4 hours to Moscow). Phones 119 – Fire Service; 110 – Police; 120 – Ambulance; 117 – Reference information in English; 121 – Weather information....
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...
Drinking water and hygiene In China, hygiene is better than in most other parts of Asia, but not quite the same as in Western Europe. It’s not a problem, as long as you use common sense. Hygiene in restaurants is generally...
Studying abroad in China is a real adventure for many. Not only because China is quite a long way away. It is also common knowledge that Chinese and German cultures are quite different. Students who immerse themselves in the culture of...
