NLAID - Activity in China

Information on China

Birth rate 12.29 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 8.7% (2000) country comparison to the world: 69

Climate extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north

Death rate 7.03 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues air pollution (greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal produces acid rain; water shortages, particularly in the north; water pollution from untreated wastes; deforestation; estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic development; desertification; trade in endangered species

Infant mortality rate
total 16.06 deaths/1,000 live births
male 15.61 deaths/1,000 live births
female 16.57 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) note: Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uighur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet)

Life expectancy at birth
total population 74.68 years
male 72.68 years
female 76.94 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 92.2%
male 96%
female 88.5% (2008 census)

Maternal mortality rate 38 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 105

Natural resources coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest)

Population
1,336,718,015 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 0.493% (2011 est.)

Religions Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% note: officially atheist (2002 est.)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 12 years
male 11 years
female 12 years (2009)

Open and Transparent Governance in China: for expansion of "Information and Participation Rights in China; putting into practice open government legislation in Hunan"

Project code NL-1-PPR-22250

Het verbreden en verdiepen van de bilaterale betrekkingen met China dmv wetenschappelijke samenwerking, kennisoverdracht, opleidingen, trainingen en stages.

Project code NL-1-PPR-14886

NLAID - Activity in China

Information on China

Open and Transparent Governance in China: for expansion of "Information and Participation Rights in China; putting into practice open government legislation in Hunan"

PEK Human Rights Course

Strengthening Legal Protection of Women's Social Rights in China

CSR Policies and Practices in China and the Developed Countries

Het verbreden en verdiepen van de bilaterale betrekkingen met China dmv wetenschappelijke samenwerking, kennisoverdracht, opleidingen, trainingen en stages.

Promoting Implementation of the Administrative Litigation System in China

SC UK - Xinjiang Child Friendly Communities

Strengthening Handicraft production design, quality and marketing in Tibetan areas

TRP - Prohibition of Torture

PEK-MRF kleine activiteiten

Freedom House China Internet Freedom / bevordering vrijheid van meningsuitning - tegengaan censuur op internet

protection of migrant workers rights

PEK Shanghai Legal Aid III

Preservation of Old Lhasa City Centre

The Research on Amelioration of Strategies to Collective Labour Disputes Governance in China

China Gender Facility for Research and Advocacy

Preventing Torture in the People's Republic of China

MRF 2011- kleine projecten

A Brighter Future: Promoting Justice for Children in China