Class: IB 333 -Country Profile & Business Environment Project

1. Country Profile & Business
Environment Project

2. • Brief Historical, Geographical and Natural Resources
• Political & Regional Economic Integration Factors
• Brief Demographic
• Country’s Economic Growth
• Technological Factors
• Productivity
• Wage Structure
• Labor
• Industrial Relations
• Government and Business Relations
• Multinationals and Joint Ventures
• Discussion of major issues
• Conclusion

3.  Prehistory
 Paleolithic
 Neolithic
 Bronze Age
 Ancient era
 Xia Dynasty
 Shang Dynasty
 Zhou Dynasty
 Spring and Autumn Period
 Warring States Period
 Imperial era
 Qin Dynasty
 Han Dynasty
 Jin Period
 Southern and Northern Dynasties
 Sui Dynasty
 Tang Dynasty
 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
 Song Dynasty and Liao, Jin, Western Xia
 Yuan Dynasty
 Ming Dynasty
 Qing Dynasty
 Modern era
 Republic of China
 Present

4.  Capital:
 Beijing
 Area:
 total: 9,596,960 sq km
land: 9,326,410 sq km
water: 270,550 sq km
mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas,
and hills in the east

5.  Coal
 Iron ore
 Petroleum
 Natural gas
 Mercury
 Tin
 Led
 Zinc
 Uranium
Chinas hydropower potential is the largest in the world

6. • Leaders:
• President HU Jintao
• Vice President XI Jinping
• 1945
• Republic of China was one of
the founding members of the
United Nations
• NAFTA
• works with China to Provide
a super-highway to increase
volumes of containers to the
US

7.  Governments economic
development
challenges:
• sustain adequate job
growth
• reduce corruption and
other economic crimes
• contain environmental
damage and social strife
related to the economy's
rapid transformation.

8.  Population:
 1,321,851,888
 Ethnic Groups:
 Han
 Zhuang
 Uygurr
 Hui
 Yi
 Tibetan
 Language:
 Sino-Tibetan
 Religion:
 Past:
 Orthodox
Non-Sinitic:
Zhuang
Mongolian
Tibetan
Uyghur
Hmong
Korean
Miao
Manchu
Mongol
Buyi
Korean
Present:
Daoist
Buddhist
Christian
Muslim

9.  China ranks #4 on the top
10 list for Largest National
Economies according to
GDP.
 China’s per capita income
grows at an average rate of
8%.
 China is powerful, but is still
experiencing poverty.
 In 2001 China enter the
World Trade Organization,
since then they became a
great economic power.

10.  Agriculture and Industry play an
important role in China’s
economy.
 Together they make up 70% of
the labor force and produce 60%
of GDP.
 Agriculture employs about ½ of
China’s population.
 China’s main Agricultural
products include: rice, wheat,
tobacco, tea, cotton, barley, pork,
fish.
 China’s main industries include:
ore processing, iron, steel,
petroleum, footwear, toys, food
processing.

11.  Labor productivity has grown:
 17%
 Telecommunication has grown:
 20%
 Two largest Mobile companies:
 1.China Mobile
 2.China Unicom
China continues to develop its telecommunications
infrastructure, and is partnering with foreign providers to
expand its global reach
Verizon Business to build the first next-generation fiber
optic submarine cable system directly linking the US
mainland and China
Chinas telecommunication grew 20% between 1997 and
2002

12.  History
 People’s Republic of China
 Administrative Divisions:
 23 provinces
 5 autonomous regions
 4 municipalities
 Government Branches:
 Executive Branch:
chief of state
 President
 Vice President
head of government
 Executive Vice Premier
 Vice Premiers
 Legislative Branch:
 National People's Congress.
 Judicial Branch:
 Supreme People's Court
 Local People's Court
 Special People's Courts.

13.  The Chinese market is a
highly preferred market.
 The worlds attraction to
the China’s market is
technology, services, and
demand for products.
 One of the main issues
corporations have when
involved with China is
cultural differences.

14. Summer Olympic Games 2008

16. (Thank You!)