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China Curriculum China Curriculum Module One: Why Visit China? This module introduces students to the country’s impressive achievements the impact of its growth has had on the rest of the world. Information Sheet LEARNING OBJECTIVE and Part One: China’s Population To encourage a genuine interest curiosity in students for visiting China by highlighting its size, power and China’s population of 1.4 billion people have moved from rural crowning achievements. accounts for around one fifth areas to cities in the last 30 years. of the world’s population, with Now nearly 60% of the Chinese ACTIVITY around one in five people population live in urban areas. worldwide being Chinese. The big cities host plenty of Research how many people live in your: career opportunities and it has • Town/village Shanghai is the biggest city in delivered enormous economic • City China (25,500,000+) and the benefits for China. • County third biggest city in the world, followed by Beijing (18,800,000+), There are 56 ethnic groups the country’s capital city. This one officially recognised in China; city alone has more people than however 91.51% are Han Chinese. This is very different to the UK other the entire country of Australia. China has four recognised Western countries where Christianity religions that it calls the Four makes up around half of the population. China is split into 26 Official Religions of China: However, Christianity is on the rise and is provinces and many Buddhism, Taoism, Islam expected to reach 20% by 2025. contain over 50 and Christianity. million people. Questions Over the It’s estimated years the country that 3% of the 1) What proportion of China’s residents live has experienced country’s population in the countryside/rural areas? the world’s largest is Islamic, whereas 2) What is the dominant religion in China? urbanisation. It’s the Christian 3) What proportion of the world’s estimated that population makes population does China hold? around 300 million up around 5%. globalschoolalliance.com Information Sheet Part Two: Life in China China is one of the Four Ancient Family gatherings are an dissimilar from anywhere else in the Civilizations, with 3,600 years important part of Chinese culture world due to its Western influence. of written history. It boasts the and traditional festivals. Very China’s economy and business leaders world’s richest breadth of culture, often grandparents will live with have adopted various ideas from foreign both diverse and unique. their children even after they’re countries at a high speed to become one married and have their own of the biggest economies in the world. It’s home to a diverse range of family. people and an equally diverse Every year China’s streets are filled with range of lifestyles. From a fast- The Chinese Education System millions of tourists, an estimated 62.9 paced working lifestyle in one of is run by the state and is million in 2019. China is one of the most China’s largest coastal cities, to a regularly ranked No.1 popular destinations for travellers relaxed lifestyle in a tiny farming in the world across who enjoy a challenge. Many choose village. The national lifestyle core subjects by to travel to China to experience a ranges hugely depending on PISA. Nowadays most completely different culture and find your location. Chinese children can immense satisfaction in overcoming speak British, but it’s difficulties that you face during the life- In country’s small towns, life now a required study at changing experience. is slow-paced, with family the the majority of schools. most important part Students are extremely Questions of the day hard working and treat 1) What are the common values of people and manual their teachers with the labour the up-most respect. who live in China? typical 2) Who tends to live in one household? employment In some parts, the 3) In your own words, how would you choice. lifestyle is not too describe life in China? globalschoolalliance.com Information Sheet Part Three: China’s Rise and Future China is rapidly becoming the manufacturing, retail and loop around the earth twice! largest economy in the world. agriculture. For foreign workers The country is currently regarded who decide to progress their Since then, the country has launched the as a world leader in electronic career in China will usually world’s fasted driver-less bullet train in 2020 good/devices; electric vehicles, require some knowledge of to connect the Chinese cities of Beijing renewable energy and Mandarin. and Zhangjiakou. The new service has energy storage. been launched ahead of the Beijing 2022 Mandarin has become Olympics. In recent years, China the most natively spoken has become the language in the world. China is using their leaps in technological world’s new ‘land Due to China’s position as innovations to fill a void in the experts’ of opportunity’ for a a leader in business and understanding of the universe. It became variety of industries and tech, more people now first country to successfully land a robotic sectors, including health see Mandarin as the most spacecraft on the far side of the Moon. In products and education. important to give them an the next decades it plans not only to build edge in the business market. a new space station, but also a base on the China has positioned itself as a Moon and conduct missions to Mars. destination with plenty to offer China are the global leaders in university students looking to technological developments. In Questions study abroad. Students enjoy the 2008, they built the world’s first 1) Name an industry that China is a world opportunity to pick up Mandarin high-speed rail with a designed leader in. as a second language. speed of 236 mph. In addition, it’s the longest high-speed railway in 2) What are the benefits of speaking Most employment opportunities the world and the most used. Its Mandarin? in China are within education, railway lines are long enough to 3) What are the employment opportunities? globalschoolalliance.com Activity Sheet A Day in China Diary We challenge you to think about what a day visiting China could be like. What sights would you like to see? Do some further research to find out what a typical day would be for someone your age. globalschoolalliance.com China Curriculum Module Two: The Wonders of Ancient and Modern China This module demonstrates to students how Modern China is still a branch of its past, by exploring the importance of China’s early rulers and monumental moments. Information Sheet LEARNING OBJECTIVE Part One: China’s Ancient History To examine how China’s Ancient History has led to the Modern China we know today. Ancient China was one of the to finish carving the army. oldest and longest lasting civilizations in the history of the The Ancient Chinese invented ACTIVITY world - it can be tracked back some of the products we still Choose one of the emperors to over 4,000 years. use and enjoy to this day. They research further. were the first to drink tea, it was Until 1912, China was ruled however originally used primarily by Dynasties. Each Dynasty for medicine. The weaving of represented a powerful family silk cloth was invented by Lady of emperors - the first was Shi-Ling-Shih and around 5,000 Shang and the last was Qing. years ago the earliest chopsticks The Forbidden Palace, a palace were used not for eating, but for several different walls built to protect the complex in Beijing and popular cooking. country’s most vulnerable boarders against tourist spot, was the imperial attacks. Major rebuilding of the Great Wall palace of Ming and Qing China’s ancient history is what took place during the Ming Dynasty in the Dynasties. tourists travel thousands of 14th century - construction during this miles to visit to this day. time around was strong due to the use of China’s first emperor, The Great Wall of China stone and brick. Qin Shi Huangdi, built is the world’s longest a giant Terracotta (clay) wall and structure ever Questions Army of around 8,000 built by humans, at over warriors to keep him 6,000km in length - the 1) What was the purpose of the Terracotta safe after he died. It took equivalent of more than Warriors? around 700,000 workers 50,000 football pitches laid 2) How far can Ancient China be tracked? and craftsmen about 38 years end to end. It was originally 3) How long is the Great Wall of China? globalschoolalliance.com Information Sheet Part Two: Modern China Much of China’s modern beliefs change and today China is more WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose and philosophies are based on economically tied to the world’s messaging, social media. Since its launch, the teachings of a government countries. WeChat has become the all-in-one tool for official who lived nearly 3,000 Modern China. The app has an estimated years ago - Kongfuzi, also known China has transformed itself 980 million active users in China alone as Confucius. He taught people from being seen as the and over 1 billion monthly active users. the value of things such as ‘world’s factory’ to the hive morality, kindness and education. of technology innovation. In recent years, WeChat introduced The increase development the function of payment on the app. China is the home of one of the of robots have been at the Now, over 300 million users have world’s oldest civilisations, but forefront of their technological their credit card synced to their it has only recently become a advances.
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