Chapter 4 : The Political Geography of Emerging Beijing

Beijing is political city. Beijing  holds a communist representative conference, also it is not too much to say that most of policy decides in Beijing. Most of Beijing citizens are descendant of royal family, noble, or bureaucrat, and also a high ranking official or chosen intelligence, therefore most of people have self-esteem and conservative tendency. In Beijing, over 50% high-ranking university located, one of most popular university in Beijing is University of Beijing which is really good institution. The area of Beijing is 16,808 km^2 which is smaller than other city but the population is 22 million which is the largest number of population within China's cities. If illegal alien included, the population is over 22 million. One of the political issues occur right now in Beijing is about Bo Xilai. A Chinese court found him guilty on charges of graft, accepting bribes and abuse of power. Bo Xilai was recently replaced as Party Secretary for the Chongquing municipality.

Chapter 3 : Ancient Roots and Binding Traditions

Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty started 1636 to 1912, Beijing became the Qing capital city. After Ming Dynasty collapsed Dorgon established the Qing Dynasty as a direct successor of Ming. Qing Dynasty is the last Dynasty of China's United Dynasty. 

Opium War

In 18 century, the world addicted to opium. Opium made so much income for Britain for selling opium to Qing Dynasty. India was colony of Britain so Britain made a humongous opium farm in India. It made easy transportation rather than move exported opium from Britain to China. The government of China did not like their people got addicted to opium so they were trying to take all imported opium from drug dealer and to stop trading with Britain. But Britain could not leave China to stop trading with them because opium was the major income for them by exporting materials. So China and Britain went to a war and China defeated, because Britain has developed weapon, also, Chinese soldiers were addicted to opium already so they did not have energy to fight back. It is really said that the world got into a war because of useless drug.

Chapter 2 : Beijing's Natural Environments

Physical Geography

Beijing located in northern area in Huairou District which opens south and east. North and West mountains surrounded Beijing, these mountains protected northern agriculture area to being desert. The Great Wall across the northern Beijing, which protect nomads from invasion. At boundary of Huairou District, the mountain Dongling is the municipality’s highest point with an altitude of 2,303 meters. Major rivers which is flowing through Beijing, are the Chaobai, Yongding, Juma, are all tributaries in the Hai River system, and flow in a southeasterly direction.

Climate

Beijing is the dry city. In Koppen climate classification, Beijing is humid continental climate (DWa), which appears hot, humid summers due to the East Asian monsoon, and cold, windy, dry winter that reflect the influence of the vast Siberian anticyclone. The monthly daily average temperature in January is 25.3’F. In July, 79.2’F. The precipitation averages around 570 mm annually. Most of precipitation focused from June to August.

Population

In late 2007, the population of Beijing is 17,430,000. To compare with in 2004, the population is increased 453,000, and compare with in 2000, it increased 1,744,000. In the middle of Beijing, there are 7,500,000 people. There are 56 ethnic group race in Beijing. Han is 95.7%, and the population of Han is 13.2 million.

Chapter 1 : Beijing's Path and Progress

For this website assignment, I decided to make website about Beijing. Beijing is the capital city of China. Beijing romanized as Peking sometimes. It located at Northern China which is 6,336.14 square miles. The population as of 2012 was 20,693,000, and population density is 3,300 square miles. The major ethnic groups of Beijing is Han which is 96%, secondly Manchu 2%. 

The GDP in 2011 of Beijing, 247.7 billion which is 13th ranks of the world. China's economy had grown about 8-10 percent a year in last three decades. As you can see this graph, China's GDP is keep increasing and in 2011, 7.318 trillion US dollar. Compare to U.S. GDP which is 14.99 trillion US dollar, U.S. GDP is twice more than China's GDP. The reason why China GDP does not match U.S.'s rate is, China usually exports cheap consumer products, but U.S. produces electronics and military equipment, which are really expensive. but now, China rapidly expanded the consumer products include electronics, transport equipment, and weapons and military equipment. Also they grew manufacturing capacity, they rapidly increasing trade with Asian economic tigers which are South Korea and Taiwan. China's population is 1.46 billion. So China's labor force is really cheap and has large markets. China became the most-favored nation in trade with the U.S.