英国政治经济第四章英语社会文化课课件

Britain is one of the world’s leading financial பைடு நூலகம்enters. Banking, finance, insurance, and other business services accounted for about more than a quarter percent of Britain’s output in the early 2000s and more than 5 million people were employed in this sector. Currency


Britain’s land surface is minimal compared to many other nations and by European standards its agriculture sector is small in terms of employment and contribution to the GDP. In the early 2000s agriculture employed approximately 1.4% of the workforce and contributed 1.0% of the GDP. But British agriculture is very intensive and highly productive.
Parliamentary Democracy Great Britain (UK) is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional Monarch as Head of State with limited powers. Constitution The Constitutional Monarchy Constitutional monarchy means that the power of the monarch is limited by the country’s constitution, the legal authority is given to Parliament and the executive authority to the government. The Parliament

Manufacturing accounted for about 16 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and about 12 percent of the workforce was engaged in manufacturing in the early 2000s. The history of manufacturing in Britain is unique because Britain was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. British industrial production also expanded into communications equipment, including fiber optics, computers, computer-controlled machine tools, and robots. Growing industries in recent decades include paper products and publishing; chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals; rubber and plastics; and electronic and optical equipment.

Britain’s abundant coal resources were very important during the Industrial Revolution, when it was mined, used, and exported in large quantities, the entire populations moved to work at coal andiron sites in the north and Midlands of England. Peak production occurred in 1913, when more than 300 million tons were mined. Today coal has become less important to the British economy and supplies an ever-smaller proportion of Britain’s total energy need, production in 2003 was only 28 million tons.

The House of Lords上议院

The House of Commons下议院
The Government The Privy Council The Judiciary Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor （英国高等法院的）王座庭庭长（英国上议 院的）

The United Kingdom is a highly developed country and one of the seven major Western economic powers, whose economy is the fifthlargest in the world (2006), the second largest in Europe after Germany, and the sixth-largest overall by purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates.

大法官
The Supreme Court
The main Political Parties The UK is a multi-party system and since the 1920s, the two largest political parties have been the Conservative Party and the Labor Party.保 守党和工党