China's Changing
Economic Concerns
Historical
Perspectives of China's People
Student Worksheet 3:
- Population:
1.236 billion (1992 est.), growth rate .87% (1997)
- Birth rate:
16 births/1,000 population (1997)
- Death rate:
7 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
- Net migration
rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
- Infant mortality
rate: 45 deaths/1,000 live births (1997)
- Life expectancy
at birth: 69 years male, 72 years female (1997)
- Total fertility
rate: 2.3 children born/woman (1992)
- Nationality:
noun - Chinese (singular and plural); adjective - Chinese
- Ethnic divisions:
93.3% Han Chinese; 6.7% Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu,
Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities (55 recognized minority
groups)
- Religions: officially
atheist, but traditionally pragmatic and eclectic; most important
elements of religion are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; Muslim
2-3%, Christian 1% (est.)
- Languages: Standard
Chinese (Putonghua) or Mandarin (based on the Beijing dialect); also
Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese),
Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, and minority languages (see ethnic divisions)
- Literacy: 82%
(1995 est.)
- Labor force:
54% agriculture and forestry; industry and commerce 26%, construction
and mining 5%, social services 5%, other 5% (1997 est.)
- Organized labor:
All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) follows the leadership
of the Chinese Communist Party; membership over 80 million or about
65% of the urban work force (1985)
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