Main question

How does China’s resource base offer opportunities and constraints to economic development?

Questions

State what percentage of the 10 largest container terminals in the world are in China? (See Resource B).

Outline the location of container terminals in China.

Use Table 1 (on resource 2) to describe the variations shown in the ‘% change between 2010 to 2012’of the throughput of container terminals located in China.

‘The spatial distribution of energy sources and minerals across China offers opportunities for and constraints on economic development’.
Discuss.

Resource A

A map showing the distribution of China’s ‘resource base’.

Resource B

The 10 largest container terminals in the world in terms of throughput (20 foot equivalent units)

	Container terminal	Data Objective for 2012	% change 2010 - 2012
1	Shanghai	32 500 000	+11.60
2	Singapore	31 600 000	+10.85
3	Hong Kong (China)	23 100 000	- 2.38
4	Shenzhen	22 940 000	+1.91
5	Busan	17 030 000	+19.24
6	Ningbo	14 973 000	+13.69
7	Guangzhou	14 520 000	+15.57
8	Qingdao	14 500 000	+19.76
9	Dubai	13 280 000	+14.22
10	Tianjin	12 300 000	+21.02

Source : UNCTAD secretariat a Lloyd’s List Intelligence, July 2013.
Note – in this list Singapore does not include the port of Jurong.

Resource C

A map showing the locations of Chinese ports.