Culture
The area in which the culture is dominant covers a large geographical region in eastern Asia Asia with customs and traditions varying greatly between provinces, cities, and even towns. Important components of Chinese culture include literature, music, visual arts, martial arts, cuisine, and religion etc. (Discover China, 2!"#. China, with its own linguistic characteristics, has a distinguishable cultural barrier to the rest of the world, yet, with $nited %tates &$%', it enoys a love and hate relationship. The Chinese share relative similar culture with )ong *ong, Taiwan, %outh *orea and +apan. )ong *ong been the Chinas second largest e-port destination destination and one of its most intense are supported by a variety of cultural commonalities, co mmonalities, including language and business environment commonalities. A common language both bo th facilitates trade directly by easing communication and is also indicative of other cultural similarities that could mae products from one country more attractive to buyers in another country. According According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA# /orld /orld 0actboo, )ong *ong languages are Cantonese (official# 1.34, 5nglish (official# 6.34, 7utonghua (8andarin# !."4, other Chinese dialects "4, " 4, other !.94 (2!! est.# and their religion is made up of eclectic mi-ture of local religions of 4, and Christianity of !4. The cultural relationship of China :;ussia lie the political one has been both fruitful and fraught. Power distance deals with the fact that all individual in societies are not e
& /e'. '. At a Individualism addresses whether people=s self>image is defined in terms of &I' or &/e score of 2 China is a highly collectivist culture where people act in the interests of the group and not necessarily of themselves. Masculinity: At 99 China is a masculine society :success oriented and driven unlie in a feminine society lie the ?etherlands where the dominant values are caring for others and
avo idance unlie the ;ussian uncertainty avoidance At 6 China has a low score on uncertainty avoidance with score of 3 that feel very much threatened by ambiguous situations and thus prefers to have conte-t and bacground information before negotiating. Chinese are adaptable and entrepreneurial. At the time of writing the maority (@4 >14# of Chinese businesses tend to be small to medium sied and family owned. Administrative
China has been increasingly active on the regional trade agreement front since the /orld /orld Trade Brganiation /TB accession occurred in 2!. These agreements, unlie the $% and 5$ cases, follow no template form of agreement but vary var y substantially one among the others and are a re in part an attempt to customie agreements to partner prior agreements (Chund ing et al., 2!"#. There are presently !2 concluded agreements, 9 under negotiation, and " others under consideration.
This has helped China to continue in increasing it bilateral trade with even the $% and the 5$ been the second largest trading partner according to the China Customs, the bilateral trade volume between China and the 5$ in 23 reached $%
[email protected]! billion, up by 22.94 year on year, among which Chinas e-port to the 5$ was $%!"6.@! billion, up by 6" .!4 year on year, while Chinas import from the 5$ was $%@6.9 billion, up by 34 year on year. Geographical
China has the longest combined land border in the world measuring 22,!!@ m (!6,@"6 mi# from the mouth of the alu ;iver to the Eulf of Tonin. The most influential geographic factors e-plaining Chinese e-ports towards partners is of course the physical distance in term of river and the common land borders it shares with other !" nations, more than any other country e-cept ;ussia, which also borders !" nations. China e-tends across much of 5ast Asia, bordering Fietnam, Gaos, and Hurma in %outheast Asia India, Hhutan, ?epal and 7aistan in %outh Asia Afghanistan, Taiistan, *yrgystan and *aahstan in Central Asia ;ussia, 8ongolia, and ?orth *orea in Inner Asia and ?ortheast Asia. Additionally, China shares maritime boundaries with %outh *orea, +apan, Fietnam, the 7hilippines and Taiwan. /hen it comes to connectivity, indeed, it is the focus of Chinas current economic and trade strategy. In order to increase easy flow of trade, China is building east>west relationships, with oil and gas pipelines lining it to *aahstan and Turmenistan. It is building north>south connections to %outh 5ast Asia, 8yanmar and 7aistan. It is trying to rope India into its connectivity strategies through proposals such as the Hangladesh> China>India>8yanmar (HCI8# corridor lining unnan with north>east and India promoting east>west connections through 8yanmar, Thailand and on to Fietnam, to balance Chinas north>south connections to %outh>5ast Asia (Indian Defense ;eview, 2!"#. Economic
China’s GDP according to 2015 is 19510 billion USD . The Gross Domestic Product er caita in China !as last recorded at "#$5.## US dollars in 201%. The GDP er Caita in China is e&ui'alent to "1 ercent o( the !orld)s a'erage. GDP er caita in China a'eraged #*".2% USD (rom 19$0 until 201%+ reaching an all time high o( "#$5.## USD in 201% and a record lo! o( #"."" USD in 19$2. GDP er caita in China is reorted b, the -orld an/. China’s economic (reedom score is 52.*+ ma/ing its econom, the 1"9th (reest in the 2015 nde. ts o'erall score is 0.2 oint higher than last ,ear+ !ith modest imro'ements in (reedom (rom corrution+ business (reedom+ and labor (reedom largel, oset b, declines in in'estment (reedom and the control o( go'ernment sending.
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