Economy of the People's Republic of China

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    Great Leap Forward. As said by Che Guevara, “A revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall”. Che Guevara’s statement is accurate to an extent in relation to the causes of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Although China was vulnerable during the twentieth century and Mao Tse-Tung, Chairman of the CCP, took control of this susceptibility, the Chinese Cultural Revolution was already ‘ripe’, someone just had to provoke it to ‘fall’. The Chinese Cultural Revolution can

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    moving into a new stage of economic growth-Green Growth This report is organized as follows: It first provides a conceptual idea of what is green growth as well as its characteristic. 1.1 Definition of Green Growth Green growth, also known as green economy, is a new concept of growth evolved from traditional growth. It tends to balance traditional economic

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    INTRODUCTION Despite having extremely conservative foreign direct investment guidelines, the government of China has been successful in attracting foreign investment. Proper implementations of Human Resource policies for international strategic alliances have always remained as a real challenge in the country. In order to adjust in the Chinese market, international banks have customized their policies and lending criteria and the government has also restructured their banking policies and information

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    CHINA'S ECONOMY AFTER FIFTY YEARS: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT Thomas G. Rawski University of Pittsburgh September 1999 As the People's Republic of China celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, economists look back on a remarkable kaleidoscope of events and policy shifts that, despite episodes of vast suffering and waste, have brought enormous material benefits to China's teeming masses. The economy inherited by China's new Communist leaders in 1949 was overwhelmingly agrarian, ravaged by twelve

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    Sociologists define culture as “the ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a people’s way of life” (Macionis 40); but when and how are cultures developed? A society’s values and beliefs derived from their people’s ancestry, their economy or way of living in relation to their physical environment, and political situation all play active roles in forming a society’s culture. In addition, local variables alone do not develop a society’s culture in the modern

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    it’s own independently ruled country until it was conquered by the Mongolians of the Yuan dynasty. Once the Yuan fell, the new Qing rulers recognized Tibet as its own state, since it had been in Mongolian control and not Chinese control (Tibet and China: Two Distinct Views). However, in 1950, Mao Zedong invaded Tibet with the promise of Peaceful Liberation. This entailed being liberated from “Western Imperialists,” and even though Tibetans did not understand this, they agreed to it because of Mao’s

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    medieval Europe (……..). “These fragmented ideas were finally made into a theory by two 19th-century German thinkers, Marx and Engels” (……..). Their theory was a reaction to the side effects of the 19th-century industrial revolution in developed Western economies. There were many thinkers that influenced Marx and Engels, and they should be given credit for their input to classical Marxism. They were German philosophers such as Georg Hegel,

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    It crosses through China to Cambodia where it enters a delta at the mouth of the river. It then diverges towards the south-east before debouching into the South China Sea in Vietnam. This overall stretch extends approximately 4,900 kilometres before reaching the delta which diverges the river into several other outlets. On its journey towards the delta it crosses 6 countries including China, Myanmar, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Identify

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    a great deal of change for China in terms of basic education. In 1978, a policy of globalization took effect, and the Peoples Republic of China began to interact with the world much more than in its previous years. Subsequently, in 1985, the “Decision on the Reform of educational structure” was mandated by the Communist Party. This placed the responsibility of education on local governments. A year later, the Compulsory Education Law of the People’s Republic of China was passed, making basic education

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    This differentiates us from our competitors who offer stuffed animals as their main products by offering a unique and memorable retail experience. Furthermore, the production of 80% of Build-a-bear materials takes place in China but have never been retailed in mainland China which offers the opportunity for us to capitalize on effective distribution channels. Beijing will provide us with a large footfall of customers and we have passed our target market on the premium toy market. We plan to have

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