Unstable Stability of China

China’s Unstable Stability

China is the greatest developing country, when one see’s it from the external view; their annual GDP growth shows amazing results every year. It is certain that China will soon be the largest economy and will be able to affect most economies in the world. Yet, if one sees it from the internal side, China has plenty of internal conflicts that may even cause them to have economic and political failures.

Throughout history, China used to be the main economic producer. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), China was producing 60 percent of the world production, but in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), it dropped to 30 percent because of Industrialization in Europe. In the beginning of the 20th century, China was barely producing 1 percent of the world production, because of the political revolution and years of civil war which eventually led them to become the poorest country in the world. Yet the sleeping dragon woke up in the beginning of the 21st century, and it came back on the world economic stage by playing a main role.

Although China is the third largest country in the world, it is actually one huge island within a geographical and economic view. Most of its population lives in eastern coastal cities, if one subtracts territories of the Tibetan Mountains and the Mongolian Gobi desert. The neighboring countries are economically not enough developed, therefore, they are mostly not considered as potential business partners for China. Official statistics says that there are 50 different ethnicities that are included in the Chinese nationality, but 93 percent of the population is considered as Han ethnicity and while the others are Tibet, Mongol, Uygur, Korean, and Kazakh ethnicities. Although China has one common writing type, they have a number of different dialects that are different from each other. For example, a person from Beijing has a Mandarin accent does not understand the person from Shanghai who has a Wu accent, so it is hard to say that most Chinese have the same ethnicity.

There are three major religions in China: Buddhism, Taoism and Confucius. These religions are far different from each other. Because they have more than 1.5 billion as their population, every single percent of this country is so great. The total number of Chinese Catholics is more than Spanish population, but the total unreligious people are equal with the total of unreligious people within rest of the world. Two years ago a new religious segment emerged which was called Gaolin, and Gaolin has over 100 million members, which is twice the size of the total members of the Communist Party of China. China’s total number of illiterate people is more than the German population. The total number of people who have high purchasing power is almost equal with the U.S. population. Furthermore, China has the most number of billionaires in the world, but there are millions of homeless Chinese