Fis Habib

CHINA HISTORY, POLITICS & ECONOMIC FACTS

Content

1 H i s t o r y

2 P o l i t i c s

3 E c o n o m y

History• China is one of the oldest civilization in the

world.• The Shang dynasty. Earliest kings in the

Valley of the Yellow river around 1300-1200 BC.

• After Shang, other dynasty lead by turns.• Qing (1681-1911) is lastest dynasty in

China. It’s close the old orde in China.• Republic orde was started 1912 by Sun

Yat-Sen (the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party). This orde was ended in 1949.

Politics• China's constitution declares that the

country is ruled "under the leadership" of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

• Local People's Congresses are directly elected, and higher levels of People's Congresses up to the National People's Congress (NPC) are indirectly elected by the People's Congress of the level immediately below.

Politics (cont)• The political system is decentralized,

and provincial and sub-provincial leaders have a significant amount of autonomy.

• Other political parties, referred to as democratic parties, have representatives in the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Economy• As of 2014, China has the world's second-largest

economy in terms of nominal GDP, totalling approximately US$10.380 trillion according to the International Monetary Fund.

• If purchasing power parity (PPP) is taken into account, China's economy is the largest in the world, with a 2014 PPP GDP of US$17.617 trillion.

• In 2013, its PPP GDP per capita was US$12,880, while its nominal GDP per capita was US$7,589. Both cases put China behind around eighty countries (out of 183 countries on the IMF list) in global GDP per capita rankings.