Airports has become a way of life in today’s fast paced world. China airports assumes considerable significance as the number of travellers to this country has increased rapidly.
The main Chinese airports are listed below:
Beijing Capital Airport (Airport Code PEK): Known as China’s largest and busiest airport, it is controlled by Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). Some facts of Beijing Capital Airport:
China, the new superpower, is rapidly growing its consumption of the world’s natural resources. In Africa and Central Asia, the country is exploring oil fields. It is searching for gas in Burma, constructing hydropower units in Mekong, exploiting minerals and coal in Australia and destroying forests in the Indonesia. China’s massive appetite for raw materials is taking a toll on nature, causing massive environmental damage and helping to push the planet’s ecological system to the limits.
According to the 2008 estimates by China’s National Bureau of Statistic, the total number of the urban unemployed was 8.30 million. The country’s total unemployment rate stood at 4.0%.
Year-on-year estimates of China’s unemployment rate
China’s population has always drawn the attention of economists, as this Asian nation is the world’s most populated country. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2008, China’s population stood at 1,328.02 million people. This staggering number represented an increase of 6.73 million from the previous year’s figure.
As the Chinese government seeks to reduce pollution while increasing energy production, the China gas industry is gaining increasing importance. Gas production reached 76.1 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2008, and with an increasing number of gas reserves in the nation that figure will only grow.
Chinese Onshore Gas Reserves: Songliao basin, Sichuan basin, Junggar basin, Tarim basin and Ordos basin.
The jobs market in China has been surging since 1978, when the communist regime opened its doors to foreign investment. The continuous arrival of foreign capital boosted the Chinese economy, making it the fastest growing economy in the world. As China embraced globalization, new industries were established and production hubs were created. Gradually, the country became a key contributor to the global economy, which opened the floodgates of employment opportunities.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s employment stood at 774.80 million persons at the end of 2008. Around 306.54 million were employed in the primary industry, accounting for 39.6% of the workforce. The secondary industry employed 211.09 million individuals, representing 27.2% of the total employed population. The employment figure for the tertiary industry was 257.17 million, accounting for 33.2% of China’s workforce.
