Travel To China

Adam asked:


The People’s Republic of China is listed at a population of 1.3 billion and a GDP of 7.9 trillion USD.

How does the outside world know that these numbers, or others like them, are accurate? There are certainly many reasons that a country may be motivated to tweak these figures.

Compared to other nations, the PRC is somewhat “closed” and opaque, with a relatively high level of secrecy. So how does the rest of the world know the level of validity and reliability of these statistics?

Claudia

serena asked:


What effect would it have on China and the rest of the world if China became a market economy?
china is still a command economy and is making the transition to a market economy thank you very much.
dont answer when your wrong.

Paige