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geography vocabulary

TermDefinition
tsunami a seismic sea wave that can attain gigantic proportions and cause coastal devastation
dynasty succession of chinese rules that came from the same line of male decent
sinicization giving chinese cultural imprint
asian tigers see economic tiger
new silk road chinas ongoing ambitious project to forge an overland route way of high speed railroads
regional complementarity exists when a pair of regions through an exage of raw materials
one nation-two systems the arrangement under which capitalist hong kong functions with prc communists economic system
one-child policy chinese population control policy initiated in the late 1970 that proscribed a limit of one child per family
high value-added goods products improved net worth
floating population chinas huge mass of mobile workers who respond to shifting employment needs within the country
hukou system long chinese system whereby all inhibitions must obtain and carry with them
gender imbalance demographic imbalance of males outnumbering females resulting from selective birth control
dependency ratio an indicator of the pressure on a countrys workers the age population ratio of people who are not in the labor force
Special economic zone manufacturing and export center in china created since 1980 to attract foreign investments and technology transfers
economic geography field of geography that focuses on the diverse ways in which people earn a loving on how the goods and services
overseas chinese the more than 50 million ethnic chinese who lived outside china
foreign direct investment key indicator of the success of emerging market economy
buffer state a country or set of countries separating ideology or political adversaries
state capitalism government controlled corporations competing under free market conditions
contubution general term used to identify a large multimetroploitan complex former by the coalesce of two or more urban areas
demographic burden proportion of a national population that is either too old or two young to be productive
urban system hierarchical network or grouping of urban areas within a finite geographical area
techno pole planned techno industrial complex
Created by: silvia santana
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