Social Studies Scribe Post for April 2nd
Today in social studies we went over our second questions sheet on China. This country is in a communist state. This is when the government hasstrong control over the economy and society. Also, China has a free enterprise system. The people can choose what job they want, where to start their businesses, and they can keep all of their profits. China’s economic growth is very rapid and this has helped the chinese people in many ways. More people can get jobs in manufacturing and service industries, wages have increased, more and more goods are ready to buy, and people can now afford consumer goods such as T.V’s, radios, cars, and motorcycles. Today we also learned about the Three Gorges Dam. The government began a 17 year long project to create the massive dam. It will be 1.5 miles long and more than 600 feet high. It is being built between Chongqing and Wuhan. The dam will result in many benifets like controling flood waters, the system of locks will allow large ships to travel inland, and it will create electricity using turbines. But this dam will also have it’s down sides. The dam would make a deep resevoir about 400 miles long that will flood over 100 homes and force 1.2 million people to move from their homes and farms. It will also wash away more than 1,000 historical sites. Specialists caution that the dam may even cause some pollution because the industrial sites that were once underwater may leak poisonous chemicals and sewage from communities surrounding the dam might flow into the dam to the Yangtze River. The fast moving waters could cause it to move quickly to the sea.
