Population of China: 1,321,851,888 inhabitants. (2007)
Pyramid Chinese
In China there are 51.5% of men and 48.5% of women.
By itself, China is more populous than all African countries and North America combined. If we add Taiwan, China's population rises to 1.37 billion people, nearly a quarter of humanity.
Coup old ...
As suggests its pyramid-shaped lotus flower, the Chinese population tends to grow old. In 1995, the average age in China was 27 years. There will be 40 years in 2025. Aging is more pronounced in India, where more than 60 years represent 5.9% of the population. But it remains below that of Europe where 17.3% of residents are over 60 years.
The only child.
To limit the growth of its population, China has adopted a policy called one-child limit the number on a child per couple. Ethnic minorities (except Zhuang, the largest ethnic minority in China) are not affected by this restriction.
Girl or boy?
In the countryside there is always a preference for boys because social insurance (including old age) are virtually nonexistent. At the wedding, the bride enters her husband's family and take care of her parents and not his biological parents.
"The Chess King" is so revered and cherished by the whole family.
Chinese Family
Since 2002, the payment of a sum of 510 euros (5000 yuan to bring the average salary of 1200 yuan urban) provides the legal birth of a second child. In the case of illegitimate births, penalties are provided: issuance of fines and non Haikou, booklet allowing, among other things, free public transport, education, etc., hence the existence of an unknown number of hidden children by families for fear of reprisals.
But the newly rich Chinese can pay the fines. Also in order to slow the natural increase, China's Constitution also limits marriage by imposing a minimum age of 22 years for men and 20 years for women (Wiki).
Reduced space
The Chinese are so many!
The majority of the population is concentrated in residential areas, away from relief and deserts that cover much of the country. With the population growth of megacities are formed around major cities like Shanghai.
Reduced space
The crowd is a regular feature in China. Dice there a little space that is occupied by the number ...
... in the street, at school, everywhere, the crowd is omnipresent in the order and discipline, or more chaotic and oppressive.
terracotta soldiers near Xi'an
This taste for large gatherings do not new as evidenced by the famous and impressive site of the Army of Tarracotta, where 6000 terracotta soldiers to human size, buried and aligned in the accompanying beyond the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi.
Portrait individual
Whatever one thinks, in this overpopulated country, individual fates exist. The Chinese, subjected to social pressure, or under the influence of their environment are more sheep than another nation. Their taste for the parade of fraternal unity, and large public gatherings, must not forget that behind each head of a pin is an individual with his personal history unique.
So rather than give you a vague view of delusions and unusual overflow crowds Chinese, here is the portrait of a man, an individual taken at random from the crowd ...
Xiao Tong was born in Guangzhou in southern China. After high school, his parents anxious to ensure its stable and profitable uses, advised him to attempt the entrance examination to the Chinese Communist army.
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But Xiao Tong was not one to toe the line and wear the uniform. His brother (because it's a family with two children!) Already working in the national police (2nd row, 4th from left).
Petite session of Tai Ji
Xiao Tong had the fiber arts. He was a passionate, sensitive one, which almost every morning attending a session of Tai Ji, accompanied by a small group of friends.
But what attracted him was the foremost design. The design is my destiny, "he said, and cons the view of his parents, he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts.
Because of its style and technical mastery utterly unique (5th row, 2nd from right), he was soon ranked among the top 10,000 students of the school.
On graduating, landed along with a handful of comrades, he went to the great stock market employs Canton. Very quickly, having spent several days in the queue, he managed to sneak a bit random at the booth of an employer.
Alas, he found himself faced with a microprocessor manufacturer, which offered little openness to the artistic talents of Xiao Tong. Not at all disappointed, the young man continued his quest to nudge into the maelstrom of young graduates still made more enraged by the bleak outlook engendered by the recent global crisis.
But finally, after several days of tribulation, he landed a job at a prestigious advertising agency, the TBWA.
Above the lot
He first worked as an assistant graphic to promote the Adidas brand, which launched a campaign at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
dint of "brainstorming" along with 88 other interns, creative éticelle finally burst in the form of an anonymous crowd (zombie?) Supporting famous Chinese athletes .
The campaign was entitled "Impossible is nothing" (impossible is nothing). Note without penalty the underlying message: strength in numbers, the unity of a nation behind its ambassadors, rage victory or death as the alternative to victory ... In short a program!
The "Drum" Drums of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
In the world of advertising easy credit is one of the contacts. It is thanks to one of them that Xiao Tong unable to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics as a drummer (36th row, 18th left).
It was his moment of glory!
Xiao Tong, like many Chinese, spent a good part of his spare time alone at his computer. Between two parts of video games in an internet cafe, he surfed on many forums and Chinese dating site hoping to find a soul mate.
Alas, Chinese women, fewer women than men, became demanding. Xiao Tong quickly realized that it was not as easy to wrap the female gender, and rather than wait for his bride as a gift from the net, he was more pragmatic ...
In this regard, more than others perhaps, we were in the field of compétiton. Especially in China with a ratio of 117 males per 100 females, it does not facilitate the kind of battle. The girlfriend's boyfriend could very well become tomorrow's girlfriend ... (Or hand!)
It was thus - without going into details - that Xiao Tong met his future wife. Both iconoclastic nature, they would not hear of a marriage formatted, and sought a unique and original to celebrate their union.
His brother was already married last year along with other fellow officers at the Olympic stadium in Beijing.
Its cousin, the less fortunate but no less original flight was in a wedding in just backhoe!
Finally Xiao Mei Tong and Tan decided to embark on life together by getting married in a small committee in the subway in Beijing ...
And to celebrate the event with a modest banquet with a few friends and family members duly selected.
As millions of Chinese honeymooners seeking a romantic adventure, they decided to go on honeymoon to discover their vast and beautiful country.
course, sometimes the journey was not easy, especially when they had to wait several days before they can buy their train ticket.
But in general the mood was still good child, although sometimes a person here or there, pressed by the crowd, had to be evacuated to emergencies.
It is true that he had better not choose the Chinese new year to beat the road. But it was much better during the week of May 1 or at the feast National early October, periods of great migrations swollen by the incessant flow of travelers. However
Xiao Mei Tong and Tan were a reason, saying that in any case was much worse elsewhere in India or Pakistan for example, with their TGF (Train Grand Crowd).
Or Libya, when migrant workers return home after several months of hard work, overloaded bags of products to sell.
With only two weeks of annual vacation that was also not so easy to choose a good holiday period. Finally, for the first time they could afford a few days during summer vacation getaway.
Xiao Mei Tong Tan and take it easy at the beach on their grain of sand (32nd rows of umbrellas, 6th right).
Xiao Mei Tong Tan and take a bath crazy! (153rd buoy red background behind the blue one)
Xiao Mei Tong and Tan batifollent on the Wall of China at Badaling near Beijing.
Xiao Tong and Tan Mei allow themselves a little visit in the corners full of history of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
But let us leave our two young lovebirds in their moment of intimacy, a promise of a bright future, and return to our sheep ...
... celebrate 60 years of China very popular!
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