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Market economy
People choose their careers, decide what to make or sell, and keep the profits they earn
Command economy
A system in which the government owns all the businesses and makes all decisions
Early Communist China's economy
Command economy
Mixed economy
Allows some private owned businesses and foreign trade and foreign owned businesses. Developed in 1970's to help China's economy.
China's economy today
Second largest economy in the world
Most common occupation (job)
Farming - agriculture
China's major crops
Rice, wheat, corn, and potatoes
Terraces
Farming technique where levels are cut into hillsides to increase farmland.

China's government
Communist - government tightly controls most areas of life. Controls media and restricts flow of info. Punishes those who oppose the government.
Those that openly oppose the government
harshly punished
Beijing
China's capital city
Tiananmen Square Protest
More than 100,000 pro-democracy protesters gathered in Beijing, the protesters were demanding more political rights and freedoms, the Chinese government tried to get the protestors to leave the Square when they refused the government used troops and tanks to force them to leave, hundreds were killed

Tibet
Buddhist region in SW China that protested for independence - this rebellion was crushed by China's government
Dalai Lama
Buddhist leader
Why do some want to limit trade with China?
Not respecting human rights
In past most of China's people lived here
Small, rural villages
Where majority of China's people live now
Booming cities, rapidly growing
Shanghai
China's largest city, seaport and center of industry
Hong Kong
Major port city, former United Kingdom (British) colony returned in 1997
Macao
Coastal city, former colony of Portugal, returned in 1999
China's environment
major pollution problems (from cars and factories; loss of Forestland and farmland due to expanding cities
Three Gorges Dam
world's largest dam built over the Chang Jiang river to reduce pollution, produces hydro-electric power. Destroyed farmland and hundreds of cities.
