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Chapter 9 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Tsunami | A wave above 65 ft that is caused by seismic activities |
South to North Water Diversion Project | The PRC inter basin water transfer scheme to deliver quantities to places that lack water. |
Dynasty | A succession of Chinese rulers that came from the same line of male descent, sometimes enduring for centuries. |
Sinicization | Giving a Chinese cultural imprint; Chinese acculturation. |
Hanification | Imparting a cultural imprint by the ethnic Chinese( the people of Han) . |
Asian Tiger | The Asian Tigers are the high growth economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan. |
High Value Added Goods | Products of improved net worth. |
One Child Policy | Chinese population control policy initiated in the late 1970s that proscribed and enforced a limit of one child per family of most population groups. Ended in 2016. |
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 dependent people who are not in the labor force to those productive 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. |
Hukou 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 make exercise particular rights. |
Special Economic Zone | Manufacturing and export center in China. |
Oversease Chinese | The more than 50 million ethic 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, whose growth is accelerated by the infusion of foreign funds to supplement domestic sources of investment capital. |
Urban System | A hierarchical 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 overland routeway of high speed railroads to link East Asia to Europe via Central Asia. |
China Pakistan Economic Corridor | The 2000 km northeast to southwest development axis stretching between the westernmost 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, a good surrogate for the area's level of development. |
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 capitalisms | Government controlled corporations competing under free market conditions, usually in a tightly regimented society. |
Conurbation | General term used to identify a large multimetropolitan complex form 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. |
Techno pole | A planned techno industrial complex that innovates, promotes, and manufactures the products of the postindustrial information economy. |
One Nation-Two Systems | The arrangement under which capitalist Hong Kong functions within the PRC's communist economic system. |