Economic Growth and Challenge: China

What Economic Growth and Challenge: China covers

Economic Growth and Challenge: China is examined in Component 3 Section B if your two optional themes include Economic Growth and Challenge, in which India, China and development in an African context are alternatives: you study one of the three. It covers relief and drainage patterns of China, China's climate and the monsoon, water availability and the north-south imbalance, population distribution, growth and structure, governance, health, education and welfare, gender and minority groups in China, resources, relief and climate as opportunity and constraint, droughts, floods and climate variability, economic activity, modified communism and the role of government, the changing size and structure of China's economy, global shift, offshoring and the workshop of the world, china's soft power and global governance, environmental pressures of economic growth, water, food and energy security and urban pressures and sustainable development strategies in China.

The 15 subtopics

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• Relief and drainage patterns of ChinaThree-step relief structure of China, north China Plain and loess Plateau.Open →
• China's climate and the monsoonMain climate types found in China, what drives the East Asian summer monsoon and winter monsoon in China.Open →
• Water availability and the north-south imbalanceImbalance between water and farmland in China, causing land subsidence in northern Chinese cities and south-North Water Transfer Project.Open →
• Population distribution, growth and structureDistribution of population within China, one-child policy and china's total fertility rate.Open →
• Governance, health, education and welfareChina's five-year plans and compulsory education in China.Open →
• Gender and minority groups in ChinaChina's five autonomous regions, han migration and china's missing women.Open →
• Resources, relief and climate as opportunity and constraintHow the physical background helps and hinders development: what the land, the water and the growing season make possible, and where they set a limit that money alone cannot lift.Open →
• Droughts, floods and climate variabilityLiving with a monsoon that fails or overshoots — the events, the populations exposed, and the irrigation, storage and warning that reduce the damage.Open →
• Economic activity, modified communism and the role of governmentRegional pattern of economic activity in China, command economy under Mao and great Leap Forward.Open →
• The changing size and structure of China's economyChina's new normal, sector structure of China's economy and china's GDP per head.Open →
• Global shift, offshoring and the workshop of the worldGlobal shift, agglomeration economy and china plus one strategy.Open →
• China's soft power and global governanceSoft power, confucius Institute and china's position in the United Nations.Open →
• Environmental pressures of economic growthAcid rain, cadmium contamination of rice and soil erosion on the Loess Plateau.Open →
• Water, food and energy security and urban pressuresWater security, food security and china's arable land red line.Open →
• Sustainable development strategies in ChinaSustainable development, air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan and three-North Shelterbelt Programme.Open →

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1. 1

   Describe the three-step relief structure of China.

   Model answer

   China descends in three great steps from west to east. The Tibetan Plateau forms the highest step, the central basins and plateaus the middle, and the eastern plains the lowest.

2. 2

   Why is the Tibetan Plateau called the roof of the world?

   Model answer

   The Tibetan Plateau averages over 4,000 m above sea level and covers about a quarter of China. Thin air, cold and aridity leave it almost uninhabited outside sheltered valleys.

3. 3

   Which mountain range forms China's south-western boundary?

   Model answer

   The Himalaya form the boundary between Tibet and Nepal and India. Mount Everest, called Qomolangma in China, stands on that border at 8,849 m.

4. 4

   Describe the North China Plain.

   Model answer

   The North China Plain is a flat expanse of alluvium deposited by the Yellow River. Deep fertile soils and a long history of irrigation make it the Chinese wheat belt.

5. 5

   What is the Loess Plateau, and why does it erode so easily?

   Model answer

   The Loess Plateau in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Gansu is covered by windblown silt up to 200 m thick. Loess has almost no cohesion, so rainfall cuts deep gullies once vegetation is removed.

6. 6

   Describe the course and importance of the Yangtze.

   Model answer

   The Yangtze rises on the Tibetan Plateau and flows about 6,300 km east to Shanghai. The Yangtze basin holds around a third of China's people and produces much of its rice.

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What does Economic Growth and Challenge: China cover in Eduqas A-Level Geography?

15 subtopics: relief and drainage patterns of china, china's climate and the monsoon, water availability and the north-south imbalance, population distribution, growth and structure, governance, health, education and welfare, gender and minority groups in china, resources, relief and climate as opportunity and constraint, droughts, floods and climate variability, economic activity, modified communism and the role of government, the changing size and structure of china's economy, global shift, offshoring and the workshop of the world, china's soft power and global governance, environmental pressures of economic growth, water, food and energy security and urban pressures and sustainable development strategies in china. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Economic Growth and Challenge: China organised?

By the Eduqas A110QS specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.