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Essay on Is China Becoming The Most Powerful Country?
Thesis: China's population has been growing rapidly over the past ten years: if its economy continues growing at its present rate over the next 15 years, China may become the most powerful military country in the world.
1. Population: In 2003, the entire inhabitants of China reached 1.292 billion (not including Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province).
The population more than the age of 16 was 998.89 million, of which the metropolitan population was 423.75 million and the pastoral population 575.14 million; the cost-effectively active population was 760.75 million and the labor force contribution rate was 76.2 percent. Amongst the population over the age of 16, the population with junior middle school education level and above took up 61.7 percent and that with junior college education rank and over, 6.6 percent. (Du. R.) With the population of mechanical workers, those of the basic grade took up 61.5 percent, those of the intermediate score, 35 percent, and those of the advanced grade, 3.5 percent.
The mainly outstanding demographic situation in China at present is the country's light birth rate. However most of the population still subsists at Third World levels of revenue and education, fertility levels are amazingly low down below the point essential for long-term population proxy, in fact. (Du. R.) This condition of course relates to the notorious "One Child" strategy of China's Communist administration, applied with changeable degrees of force for almost two decades. (Lardy, N.R.)
A. Workforce: China has 711.5 million workforces alongwith 11.5 of Japan's workforces. When we stare at the Chinese population arc in the modern years, their natural increase rate which stood at 1.04% in 1990 came down to 0.77% in 1999, a level corresponding to those in developed nations. China's population....
