T3H - 5.3 Population and migration China

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China - (over)population and migration

Today's Lesson 

To do:

- Lesson up questions and explanation about overpopulation and population policy

- Answer Q2 and Q3 from unit 5.3

Goals: 

- Understand how China's one-child policty influenced the population

- To understand how China deals with different ethnic cultures - Uyghurs

How many siblings do you have? (brothers/sisters)

0

1

2

3

4 or more

Are you the oldest child in your family?

Yes

No

What is overpopulation according to you?

Disadvantages of overpopulation?

Advantages of overpopulation?

China's answer to overpopulation

One child policy 

Population of China was growing too fast.

Government felt they needed to enforce this law, to protect the country from overpopulation. 

Law in China: Parents are only allowed to get one child.

It is estimated that this policy prevented four hunderd million births. 

China in population

How was the Chinese government able to reduce the growth rate of the Chinese population?

China in population graph

Look at source 10

(page 131 of your tb)

How can you tell from

this population graph

that China has a one-

child policy?

Which statements concerning China are correct?

Correct

Incorrect

CORRECT

INCORRECT

Women become older than men

Parents rather have boys than girls

Because of one-child policy, the number of abortions for boys increased

Because of the one-child policy, boys have troble getting married

The population in China is ageing

More elderly people than young people live in the countryside

Negative consequences of the
'One child policy'

Is it okay for a government to decide what you can or can not do with your life?

TASKS

- read unit 5.3

- Answer Q. 2 and 3 from unit 5.3

Factsheet urbanization

Megacity vs. metropolis

- both have large populations (more than 10mln inhabitants)

- Metropolis is important on worldscale

Urbanization

- Happens all around the world

- urbanization rate is high --> the percentage of people living in a city

- urbanization tempo --> How fast are cities growing?