China's Agriculture

Agriculture is by far China's leading occupation, involving 50% of the population. Agriculture accounts for only 20% of the nation's gross national product. China ranks first in world production of red meat (including beef, veal, mutton, lamb, and pork). They also rank first in cotton an tobacco.China is also the largest producer of rice, wheat, and a major producer of sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn and soybeans.

United Nations Millenium Development Goals for China

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
We need to continue to strive towards economic reforms to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
If it were possible to use government funding, or funding from other countries, we may be able to move forward on this issue, but our goal will not be obtained by 2015.

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
We do not believe that this will improve greatly by 2015. China enforces the One-Child Policy. China is also a patriarchal society with the pressure of having one child, many wish for a boy but that is not always the outcome. Because of this there are concerns with women using gender selective abortion. This will take a long time to change.

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
We do not plan to solve this problem by 2015.

Goal 5: Improve maternal health
We do not feel that this will improve greatly by 2015 and need help in this area.

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Using health education to advise those on HIV/AIDS and safe sex practices will help the reduction of the spread of this disease.

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
We are currently addressing this issue and feel that we will be willing to recieve help in trying to improve our environmental conditions. One way that we feel that we can do this is by replacing coal as our main form of fuel for energy and harnessing wind and solar power in it's place.

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
We are very far along on the production of manufacturing goods for the world, and feel that it would be in other countries best interest to consider us for global partnership.

Problems in China

Problems

1. Poverty
2. Environment
3. One Child
4. Working conditions
5. Health

Future problems

1. Aging
2. Environment
3. Health care
4. Working conditions
5. Water pollution

Education and the Spread of HIV in China

Education in China (The Literacy rate in china is great )

http://www.prb.org/Datafinder/Geography/Data.aspx?category=16&region=164&region_type=2

HIV in China (the disease is increasing)

http://www.prb.org/Datafinder/Geography/Data.aspx?category=15&region=164&region_type=2

Demographics

Population: 1,331,398,000

Capital: Beijing

Largest city: Shanghai

Fertility rate: 1.6

Life expectancy: 73

Minorities: 55 different groups. (92 percent Han, which is the largest group in the world).

Age of population 65/up: Eight percent (in 2050 24 percent)

Age population 15 and under – 19 percent

Urban Population Living in Slums 38 percent

Urban population 46 percent

Health

The Hiv disease has reached China and is infecting a large number of people. Although their is not a big number of people affected compared to the total inhabitants of China, the infected population should not be ignored. Recently, this disease has become the number one diseaes for killing the citizens of China.

Those who use needles to shoot up, and unprotected sex is why the disease is spreading across China. 700,000 (0.1 %) are infected.