Beijing city is the country’s capital. It is the centre of administration and its major business hub. Politically, a single party known as the Communist Party of China governs the country. China has risen economically in the past few years to become the second largest economies in the world. The United States of America is the world’s leading g economy.
Economic Growth in China China and the United Kingdom are very different countries. Firstly, the UK has a population of 60 943 912, unlike China, which has a population vastly greater than the UK’s, it is 1 330 044 544. Furthermore, China has Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 3 251 000 and the UK has a GDP of 2 773 000. China has experienced a huge amount of growth over the past few decades. This is shown by how there GDP is high, and the very large population.
In the mid-1800’s, industrialization swept Europe, allowing new ideas, business’s, and commercial production to flourish. Imperialistic industrialized nations, such as Britain, led to the spread of industry into its colonies’, which had an abundance of raw materials but different characteristics that shaped industry. This can be seen in the similarities and differences in the mechanization of the cotton industry between 1880 – 1930 in Japan and India. Similarities were seen in the rapid increase of textile production and the direct decline of the conditions of factory workers, who in both countries were mainly peasant farmers, while differences were seen in the dramatic difference in the gender that made up the majority of the labor force.
New Imperialism Between the years 1870 and 1920, European imperialism accelerated due to political, economic, and social forces. Imperialism is the domination over undeveloped countries using these forces. The Industrial Revolution helped advance the European nations through technology. Other nations were able to control over many other less-developed areas around the world. Imperialism began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s affecting many countries, for example, China, India, Africa, and South America were all affected by imperialism.
The way China’s political leaders reacted in Tiananmen Square shows its firm grip on its political policies. Evolving into East Asia’s hegemon and slowly rising to the world’s top grossing economy, China has built a stable and exponentially increasing economy. America’s hyper power days have been well over considering the 2007 recession, immense debt to China, and its yearly mandated increase of America’s debt ceiling. China’s capitalism is different to America’s in terms of its heavy reliance on state-owned enterprises and its quick investment on physical infrastructure. With several projections from acclaimed economists and other sources China is bid to become the World’s largest economy in the next century or
The last 10 years in China's economy may be summed up in two overwhelming facts which place all other economic data in context.”(John Ross, 2012). A huge rapidly change of economy growing has been achieved in this eastern great country, China. Education, free trade, cultural exchange, unemployment rate and so on had a totally significant increase in last thirty years, it become the world’s largest goods export country, in a short time miracle, China has bring its state control the economy came to the world second largest, with more and more company’s base factory has set up distribute in many cities. China’s
This is due to the peculiar role of Great Britain. Britain enjoyed a rising standard of living during the eighteenth century, in result of good harvests, booming overseas trade, and a growing population. Britain was the world’s leading exporter of clocks, tools, hardware, guns, and other craft goods. Its metal and mining industries employed engineers willing to experiment with different new ideas. It had the largest merchant marine and produced more ships, navigation instruments, and naval supplies than other countries.
Previously, Portugal was one of the most long-lived modern empires in Europe. For almost 600 years Portugal has owned many countries by colonisation. As of the 19th century, its international status was greatly reduced when Brazil – Portugal’s largest colony – gained independence. While Portugal is one of the most globalised and peaceful nations in the world, it also suffers from significant amounts of debt. Portugal was one of the most profound colonizers in history.
However, what or who caused these reforms to happen? The 1800’s were a time of liberal reform in Britain. These reforms came as a result of two things: the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Although the industrial revolution had made Britain the most powerful nation in the world; it also led to many workers working eighty hour weeks in terrible labor conditions. Before the reforms were passed by Parliament, Britain was controlled by wealthy landowners and aristocrats.
One looks at the Industrial Revolution that started in the 19th century in Europe and eventually spread to the rest of the world. Carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases that have been released from factories, cars and other human activities from that period to today have resulted in increased global warming that has altered climate patterns. Rogers and Evans (2011) state that when one looks at emissions of carbon dioxide per capita, America still ranks at number one with 18 tonnes per person and China only stands at 6 tonnes per person, however China ranks at number one collectively due to large scale population and heightened economic growth, emitting 171% more carbon dioxide since 2000. Climate change has seen many parts of the world receiving increased rainfalls that result in flooding and other areas receiving little to no rainfall resulting in