Created by Elliot Kim

 Part 1: Land & Water (Picture 1 and 2)  Part 2: Climate & Vegetation (Picture 3 and 4)  Part 3: Natural Resources (Picture 5 and 6)  Part 4: Historic Tradition (Picture 7 and 8)  Part 5: People & Culture (Picture 9 and 10)  Part 6: Transformation (No Pictures)

 China is the world’s third largest country.  Mountains, plateaus, and highlands cover the most part.  The Himalaya Mountain and Plateau of Tibet are in China.  1.5 Billion people live.  Mountain and desert cover 2/3 of the country.  The Chang Jiang and Huang He River are the most famous rivers in China.  The Wide North China Plain is covered with loess, fertile soil, which makes the most fertile land in China.

 China’s climate is very dry and hot.  To the south, Plateau Of Tibet has cool, dry, highland climate.(Tibet is part of China)  You know that every single country has a storms and scary climates? Well, China’s storm is called Monsoons. They are winds that swipe across the country (in Asia) in certain times of year.  So, let’s talk about the vegetation in China! Well, when China is wet,(like when it rained) a lot of bamboos and plants grow.  Deciduous, trees also change because the weather changes.(Like colors, and how do they live, etc)

 How many oils do you think to fill up the whole 1.5 Billion people? A lot!! So, Check This Out!  Oils, the murder, the peoples pet, do you know WHY? It’s because even though you burn, die, sink, or froze, even though the world ends, but the oil drilling NEVER stops! It’s because the oils are so precious and useful to so many things!  Oil is one of the most important natural resource that you could find in China. And why do you think the oil is expensive? It’s because it’s getting polluted and it’s hard to be found! That’s why.

 China’s Great Wall was built in 206-B.C to protect themselves from enemies.  China thought they were the most developed country in the world because they made paper, gunpowder, silk weaving, compass, etc.  Chinese engineers were very good at digging canals, building dams, and bridges, and setting up the irrigation system.  Chinese scientists upgraded their mathematics and medicine.  Long ago, ( In China,) like at ancient times, the EMPEROR ruled the China, and the emperor’s family was a dynasty. Some examples would be Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing.

 93%of people trace their ancestry to the Han. Other 7% is from ethnic groups.  Each Chinese ethnic groups speaks a different languages. China's language is officially Mandarin, as spoken in Beijing.  The Chinese government is communists  Also, the communists were trying to slow down the China’s population by having a family only one child, because they (China) was very poor country, so they didn’t have many good product to feed them, or give them.

 In China, a lot of people do something special during special time. So, I wanted to talk about the games that Chinese do in special time. It’s called Weiqi. It’s the ancient China’s game.  The Rule: Player1 gets 150 black stones and player 2 gets 150 white stones. And you have to get the white or black stone and cover it. But in China, (Buddhists) think that the game checks how you are intelligent, your concentration, and etc.

 Early Chinese music was based on percussion instruments, which later gave away to string and reed instruments. Early Chinese music  Chinese cuisine is famous and diverse. The Chinese themselves like to say they'll eat anything with four legs except a table.  China is one of the main birth place of Eastern martial arts. The names of martial arts were called Kung Fu.main birth placeKung Fu

 China has undergone a change from communism to the direction of private capitalism.  China is a predominantly agricultural country and most of the population live in villages rather than towns or cities. However, the population living in urban areas is now growing.  Some of China's urban working population has no job, and that the unemployment rate will rise.  All cities in China are expanding in size, and bigger and better highways, bridges, and tunnels are made to link suburbs and city.

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