Chapter 4: Politics and Political Geography

Hong Kong is part of the "one country, two systems" in China. The rest of China follows a socialist system, while Hong Kong along with Taiwan maintain a capitalist system. Hong Kong has been part of British until it was seized by Japan, then it was taken over again by the British who then handed China. This is all something that is new to me and i had no idea of until i did some research on Hong Kong political system. This video gives a little bit of background on how it differs from other Chinese cities.

http://youtu.be/--a1UXA42zM

Chapter 3: Culture and Traditions

I chose to write about the Chinese New Year tradition. This tradition doesn't necessarily relate to Hong Kong specifically but to China as a whole because it is a national tradition that the country celebrates as a whole. I think its something that most of us have heard about but Ive never knew anything about it other than then just the fireworks. The fireworks are used not only to celebrate the new year but also to scare away the evil. There's so much to the New Year tradition that i didn't know about such as the food and the cleaning of their houses to get rid of the "old" and welcoming in the "new".

Source: http://www.chinesenewyears.info/chinese-new-year-traditions.php

Chapter 2: Natural Environment

Because of China's heavy pollution, i chose this video to show the types of effects the pollution has on the country specifically in Hong Kong. Because Hong Kong is so heavily populated it contributes to much of China's pollution problem. The video shows the low quality of air and low visibly that has resulted from primarily so many vehicles on the roads. There isn't much of government restrictions for their pollution problems and it is causing some residents to leave the big city because of the health problems it is causing them and their young children.Many of us here can relate to this problem being so close to Los Angeles  not just air quality but their water and other natural environments.

Chapter 1: Intro to Hong Kong

China's Booming Growth

For my city in China I chose to do Hong Kong, it primarily a city we all know of and have heard of and is one of the biggest cities in China. China as a country has a population of 1.3 billion people and Hong Kong is responsible for a good portion of that population with 7.15 million people living there. Over the past years the annual rate of increased population has risen, it has doubled from 2008 to 2012. It will continue to increase over the years and most likely keep doubling itself since the birth rate is much higher than the birth rate.