A COMPARISON OF CHINA AND CANADA
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian’s Canadian friends asked them to tell them something about China. The two cousins decided to present a short report together, comparing China and Canada.
LD=Li Daiyu LQ=Liu Qian
LD: China is very large country. It’s about 9,600,000 square kilometres in area, and 5,000 kilometres from east to west. It’s so big that it’s difficult to describe. Perhaps it’s easier to compare it to Canada.
LQ: China has many of the highest mountains in the world. They’re in the west of the country, as they are in Canada, but China has more mountains where many great rivers begin.
LD: China has two countries to the north, Mongolia and Russia. Unlike Canada, which has no countries to its north, but only the Arctic ice and snow.
LQ: China has fourteen neighbouring Countries. Its borders are over 20,000 kilometres long. Canada, however, has only one neighbour, the USA to the south. Both Canadians and Americans speak English, but it’s not so easy for Chinese to talk with their neighbours, even if they live close to the border.
LD: China’s Gobi Desert, in the northwest of China, is very special. There is nothing similar in Canada. In winter and spring sometimes the cold air blows dust southward from the Gobi Desert to the northern parts of China. Even the Great Wall cannot keep out the dust.
LQ: Both China and Canada have long rivers and many lakes as well as busy port cities on the Pacific Ocean. China is famous for the third longest river in the world, the Changjiang River, and Canada has the famous Niagara Falls.
LD: Canada, however, has nothing like China’s southern island of Hainan. While it is snowing and freezing in Mohe in north China on the Chinese-Russian border, people nearly 5,500 kilometres south in Hainan can sit on the beach in the sunshine.
LQ: There is nowhere to sit on the beach in winter in Canada!
