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by Taro In China, there is a population problem and a financial problem. The population is increasing and it is overpopulating. As a solution the government decided to have a law passed to only have 1 child for each family. If a 2nd child is born the child must be adopted by someone else, be left alone until someone else picks it up, or hide it from the government. Because of the overpopulation, the food supply is going down which can lead to other problems in the country. The financial problem is that the differences between the poor people and the rich people is very big. The rich people are very rich but the poor people are in poverty, some are even homeless. Also the country is having conflicts with Tibet.
 * What Kinds of Problems is China Facing in Recent Years? **
 * Part I--What I already know about my topic **

Why is the country overpopulating? What other kinds of issues are the people facing? Why is their a big difference in rich people and poor people? How is the government going to deal with this problem? What was the people's reaction? How is the government going to react? Why doesn't China call for help? Why are the Chinese having conflict with the Tibetans?
 * Part II--What I Want to Find Out **

**Part III--The Search** //** I picked the website, http://countrystudies.us/china/34.htm because this website talks about the development of the population control in China. I think that this will be a good source because this also talks about events that might happen happen in the future. This might help me in making the game because if I am making a game like McDonald's and ElectroCity, I would need to know many possibilities of China's population. Also this gives information about the suburban and urban situation. Though the article a little short, this gives a lot of information making research easier.

I picked the book, "His Holiness the Dalai Lama" at the library. Dalai Lama was a person who was chased out of the country. I chose the book because I thought that this will give ideas about Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader with the conflict with China and how he feels about him being thrown out of the his own country and chased out of Tibet and China. These things might help me in the game because this gives an inside view of the population problems and economic problems in China.

Today I thought about the game I will be making. I might make a game that is a digital game and make the game a simulation of the situation where the player has to get out of that particular situation, or a simulation where for every turn, poor people get poorer, rich people get richer, population get larger and supplies go down. the player has to prevent these things from happening by using different resources. ** //

The website  is a really good site because this talks about the events of the past. If we didn't know the events of the past we cannot predict the future. Even though we cannot predict the future exactly we know the possibility even though I am making the game the time line of a year, choices might speed up the consequence. The conflict started in about the year 1949.

Today I tried to find a good website for my topic. In the end I found the website http://www.humanrights.cn/zt/magazine/20040200563104253.htm. It tells that the Chinese government is taking away a human right, to build a family. This is because the population is increasing making it harder to feed the country, raising the price. Because of this, the poorer people cannot buy anything since they do not have enough money while the rich become richer gaining from the price raise on the supplies. This is becoming a problem in China. More people are getting homeless each day, but again, rich people are getting richer each day. If this continues there will be a big financial problem, maybe bigger than the mess we are in now. Even though China is in this financial situation China doesn't call for help from other countries. Why is it being isolated? Are they embarrassed? These are questions we should think about. // Since I knew that my dad knew many things about the population and economic problems in China I decided to interview him. In my interview with my dad, I learned that China is being like ancient Japan, isolated. After Japan got introduced to new technology, like the steamboat, they noticed how behind in technology they were. If this continues to happen China might become like ancient Japan. Also the poor are becoming poorer while the rich are becoming richer. This is because the poor cannot afford anything becoming worse and worse each day. The rich profit from factories becoming richer each and every day. The biggest gap in economy is rural and urban places. Urban families need more money to support themselves while rural places have factories and jobs to earn money. //

** Part IV--What I Learned ** By researching this topic, I learned that China is having a hard time controlling overpopulation and to do this they needed to have Population Control Programs. Also China is trying to close the gap between the rich and the poor. If they don't close the gap soon, China might become stuck in a very bad economic situation. Even though China is in a bad situation even with this, they still have to deal with conflict with the Tibetans and overpopulation concerns. This makes China in a even worse situation. If they not so aloof, they might have had help from other countries.

Lama, Dalai. Ethics for the New Millennium. i.e. i.e. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1999. Print. Shima, Jiro. Personal Interview by Taro S. 05/05/2010.
 * Part V --Works Cited**

"The Conflict Betwee n China and Tibet." //The Conflict Between China and Tibet//. Xomba, 1/4/2008. Web. 22 Apr 2010. .

Worden, Robert. "China - Population Control Programs."China - Population Control Programs. Robert Worden, 1978. Web. 21 Apr 2010. .

Xiang, Yun. "hmanrights." hmanrights. Intercontinental Pan-Chinese Network Information Co., n.d. Web. 27 Apr 2010. .