Chinese picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 24 image entries
Contest Directions: 
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Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China, whose rapid economic rise will
soon fundamentally alter the balance of power,
former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn has warned.
There are currently over over 1.5 billion Chinese living in different
parts of the world.
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You may remember the joke "One out of every five people in the
world is Chinese. Check four of your friends - if none of them is
Chinese, it is you." Well, I checked four of my friends and see
that this joke has a typo. The correct version is "One out of every
five people in the world is not Chinese..."
In this contest you are asked to photoshop celebrities and politicians
as Chinese. We are not looking for just a Chinese dress up and makeup
(even though you can do that too), but your primary goal is to change
some of the facial features (eyes, nose, lips, etc.) of politicians
and celebrities which would make them look Chinese-like, but still
recognizable.
[ browse best gallery pictures ] Tags: chinese
Jackpot: 1st place: $20, 2nd place: $12 , 3rd place: $8
Started: 11/27/2006 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 11/29/2006 6:00:00 AM
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| | The wealthier countries on the planet are failing to fully grasp the
impact that the inevitable growth China and India will have in the
world of the future. This topic was discussed at the 2006 Wallace
Wurth Memorial Lecture at the University of New South Wales. It is
expected that within the coming 25 years the combined gross domestic products of India and China will excess that of the Group of Seven
nations. This should occur sometime between 2030 and 2040. China will
become the largest economy in the world, leaving the U.S.A. trailing
behind. By 2050 many experts predict that China's current $2 trillion
GDP in U.S. dollars will explode to a mammoth $48.6 trillion. India's
economy will hit $27 trillion at the same point in time. These
projects have been made by investment bank Goldman Sachs. The U.S.A.'s
income would reach $37 trillion by that time. These forecasts suggest
that Western nations, and Australia, are not investing enough in
education. China and India are also making a substantial investment in
Africa. Africa is front and center in the development plans of both
China and India.
Political structure of Peoples Republic of China
After the formation of Peoples Republic of China in December, 1949, four Constitutions (in 1954, 1975, 1978 and 1982) have been adopted. As per the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China (December 1982), PRC is a socialist state with democratic dictatorship of the people.
Supreme body of the state is unicameral All-China National People's Congress (NPC), consisting of 2979 deputies elected from regional congresses of national representatives for a period of 5 years. Sessions of NPC are held annually.
Due to large number of deputies, in between the sessions the functions of NCP are carried out by the standing committee selected from among the delegates (around 150 people).
Only deputies from Communist party of China and eight so-called democratic parties, included in the National political advisory council of China are allowed to take part in the elections. Proper legislative governments run the territories of Syangan (Hong Kong) and Macao (Aomyn).
All the deputies of NPC are representatives of block of communists and democrats.
Head of PRC Hu Jintao is the general secretary of Central Committee of Communist Party of China. He is the representative of fourth generation of the heads of the country.
Transition of power to this generation started in 2002 when Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin on the post of general secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China. In March 2003, Hu Jintao was chosen as head of the Peoples Republic of China, and in September 2004 - chairman of the central military commission (CMC) of Central Committee of CPC. Earlier all these posts were held by Jiang Zemin. On 8th March 2005 the session of Chinese parliament (All China congress of national representatives) approved Jiang Zemin’s request for resignation from the post of chairman of the central military commission of PRC. Later this post was also held by Hu Jintao, that completed the process of handing-over the power at the top level.
Central military commission of PRC was established in 1982. Deng Xiaoping was its first chairman; in 1990 Jiang Zemin replaced him. Posts of the heads of CMC of the Central Committee of CPC and CMC of PRC in the present political system of China, as a rule, are held by one person.
Military commission and its head play an important role in the Chinese political system. As, in 1989 holding this post Deng Xiaoping who was by this time already retired from the higher posts of party and government, practically single-handedly took the decision for suppression of demonstrations on Tiananmen Square.
Foreign policy of China is criticized for actual support of genocide in Sudan, and also for support to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. PRC conducts its foreign policy, promoting the strengthening of China’s role in the world politics.
PRC claims its sovereignty over the island of Taiwan and several neighboring islands, however after the victory of socialist revolution, the toppled government of Chan Kaishi fled to this place and again established the so-called Kuomintang regime, which is till date under the protection of USA. PRC considers Taiwan and neighboring islands as a part of a single and indivisible Chinese state. Leadership of Taiwan, or as it is officially called, “Republic of China”, also claims for the sovereignty over entire territory of China, though in recent times there is movement catching up to declare Taiwan as a separate state.
In foreign writings, often the areas, which are under the control of PRC, are called as continental China, thus usually this concept does not include the so-called special administrative areas like Hong Kong and Macao (they were the British and Portuguese colonies and have been reunited with the PRC only towards the end of XXth century).
As per the agreement concluded with Great Britain in 1989, control over Syangan (Hong Kong) was handed-over to PRC as special administrative area on 1st June 1997, and last Portuguese colony of Macao (Aomyn) was handed over in 1999.
Some territorial disputes erupted between Russia and China in 2005 when Russia conceded some islands near to Khabarovsk (including the western part of island Great Ussuriisk) to PRC.
Administrative division of PRC
People’s Republic of China has the administrative control over 22 provinces; thus the government of PRC considers Taiwan as 23rd province. Besides, there are also 5 independent regions in the PRC where national minorities of China live; 4 municipal territories, corresponding to the cities directly controlled by the center, and 2 special administrative territories under the control of PRC.
22 provinces, 5 independent regions and 4 cities under central control are collectively called as “continental China”, which generally does not include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. |
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