___ of China's Population lives in the eastern providences.
What is 94 percent?
100
In 1979, the Chinese government instated THIS policy, that stated, "Citizens must obtain a birth certificate before the birth of their children..."
What is the "One Child Per Family" Policy?
100
The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
What is desertification?
100
China's own predictions project that CO2 emissions output will rise by ___ % until they reach their peak in 2035.
What is 50 percent?
100
China's population is __ percent of the world's total population.
What is 18.54 percent?
200
True or false: China as a whole is bigger than Russia.
FALSE
200
According to Chinese law, under the "One child per Family" policy, constituents would be taxed up to ___ percent of their income if they were to have more than one child.
What is 50% or greater?
200
True or false: China consumes almost as much coal as all other countries COMBINED.
TRUE
200
____ ________ _____ are another consequence of harmful emissions which cause frequent flight cancellations, and often road closures.
What are Low Visibility Levels?
200
Projections of China's population growth in 1999, predicted China's population to be around 1.5 billion by the year 2025. China's current population as of 10/26/17, is ___ billion.
What is 1.415 billion?
300
The People's Republic of China has an area of about ___ square kilometers.
What is 9.6 million kilometers?
300
At its peak in 1983, tubal ligations, vasectomies, and abortions accounted for ___ percent of total birth control methods.
What is 35 percent?
300
An average of _____ more motor vehicles are added to Beijing's streets each day.
What is 1200?
300
On an average day in Beijing, the Air Quality Index (AQI), can be measured as high as ___. Scores near 500 contain more than twenty times the safe level of particulate matter in the air.
What is 755?
300
The median age in China is __ years.
What is 37.3 years?
400
Because of China's diverse terrain, only __ percent of its land is considered arable for farming.
What is 13 percent?
400
Due to local officials falsifying reports and misreporting total birth rates per their region, it is estimated that up to __ percent of births were going unreported by 1992.
What is 27 percent?
400
Emissions from motor vehicles account for __ percent of Beijing's air pollution.
What is 70 percent?
400
Compared to citizens living in southern China, the average life span for Beijing’s citizens is __ to ___ years shorter.
What is five to six years?
400
The population of China is equivalent to the population of North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and all of Western _____ -- combined.
What is Western Europe?
500
China has destroyed __ percent of its farmland in the past 7-10 years because of land development.
What is 10 percent?
500
By 2020, there will be between _____ and _____ more Chinese men of marrying age than women.
What is between 30 million and 35 million?
500
Climate scientists now predict that, in order to avoid a potentially catastrophic rise in global temperatures, worldwide carbon dioxide emissions must be cut by __ percent by 2050.
What is 50 percent?
500
In 2003, the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning determined that air pollution was responsible for ______ premature deaths across China.
What is 411,000?
500
Shanghai's population is 24 million, more than the entire population of _________, packed into a city half the size of Sydney.