Located in South East Asia is a country surrounded by 14 other nations, ranging in economic and political stability (U.S Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010). The country is home to 9 596 961 square kilometers of terrain that is filled with plains, deltas, and hills in the east east; mountains, high plateaus, and deserts in the west; and boasts a tropical climate in the south while subarctic climate inhibits the north (U.S Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010). This is China, or formally known as the Peoples Republic of China (P.R.C). (See Appendix 1) With a population growth of 0.494% annually, the Chinese population of 1 324 655 000 has been increasing steadily since the 1960s (Google, 2010). (See Appendix 2) There are 23 provinces, as the P.R.C. considers Taiwan to be its 23rd province (U.S Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010). The government of China is a communist party-led state that created a Constitution on December 4, 1982, however it has been revised several times, most recently in 2004 (U.S Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010). China is an up-and-coming superpower with a gross domestic product of $4.814 trillion, in 2009, growing their economy at a rate of 8.7 per cent annually (U.S Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010). Home to the world's largest hydropower potetial, China is rich in coal, petroleum and natural gas, which is what drives their energy industry (U.S Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010).
             The Chinese economy, though not the biggest per capita in greenhouse gas emissions, is one of the least efficient and most heavily reliant on dirty energies in scale (China Program: The state of China's environment). The Chinese's main trading partners are the United States, Hong Kong and Japan, who helped China to export $1.194 trillion of goods in 2009 (U.S Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010). China has an overpopulation problem that co...