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Geo. Ch.9 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Tsunami | A. Seismic sea wave that attain gigantic proportions and cause coastal devastation |
South to North Water Diversion Project | The PRC’s inter-basin water transfer scheme to deliver massive quantities of fresh water from the Huang He and Chang Jiang river systems to the burgeoning urban areas of northern China that face severe water shortages |
Dynasty | A succession of Chinese rulers that came from the same line of male descentv |
Sinicization | Giving a Chinese cultural imprint; Chinese acculturation |
Hanification | Imparting a cultural imprint by the ethnic Chinese “the people of Han” |
Asian Tiger | Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan (economic giants) |
High valued added goods | Products of improved net worth |
One-Child policy | Chinese population control policy initiated in the late 1960s that proscribed a limit of one child per family |
Gender imbalance | The demographic imbalance of males outnumbering females resulting from selective birth control |
Dependency ratio | an indicator of the pressure on a country’s workers, the age-population ratio of people who are not in the labor force to those people who are in the labor force |
Floating population | China’s huge mass of mobile workers who respond to shifting employment needs within the country |
Hykou system | A longstanding Chinese system whereby all inhabitants must obtain and carry with them residency permits that indicate where an individual is from and where they may exercise particular rights such as education, health care, housing, and the like |
Special Economic Zones | Manufacturing and export center in China, created since 1980 to attract foreign investment and technology transfers |
Overseas Chinese | The more than 50 million ethnic Chinese who live outside China |
Economic geography | The field of geography that focuses on the diverse ways in which people earn a living and on how the goods and services they produce are expressed and organized spatially |
Foreign direct investment | A key indicator of the success of an emerging market economy |
Urban systems | A hierarchal network or grouping of urban areas within a finite geographic area, such as a country |
New Silk Road | China’s ongoing ambitious project to forge an overload route way of high speed rail roads to link east Asia to Europe via Central Asia |
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor | The 2000 km, northeast-southwest development access stretching between the western most Chinese city of Kashgar and Pakistan‘s new Indian ocean port of Gwadar |
Buffer state | A country or set of countries separating ideological or political adversaries |
Nightlight map | Map that displays the nighttime distribution of artificial lighting in a given area |
Regional complementarity | Exists when a pair of regions, through an exchange of raw materials and or finished products, can specifically satisfy each other’s demands |
State capitalism | Government – controlled corporations competing under free market conditions, usually in a tightly regimented society |
Conurbation | General term used to identify a large multimetropolitan complex formed by the coalescence of two or more major urban areas |
Demographic burden | The proportion of a national population that is either too old or too young to be productive and that must be cared for by the productive population |
Technopole | A planned techno industrial complex that innervates, promotes, and manufactures the products of the post industrial information economy |
One Nation-Two systems | The arrangement under which capitalist Hong Kong functions within the PRC‘s communist economic system widely seen as a model for the future reunification of Taiwan and mainland people |