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Today

•Chinese Agriculture continued

•Chinese population issues

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Last time –Questions?

•China’s environment

•Chinese agricultural regions

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Chinese agriculture II

•Agriculture reformPre-Communist (pre-1949)Communist changesCurrent reforms

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Chinese agriculture III

•Nearly self sufficient despite 1.3 billion

•Agriculture is very intensive 10 persons to feed per ha

•Urban pops increasing and so is wealth => demand increasing faster than pop growth

•Significant imports but also significant exports

Wheat & other upland crops

Wetland Rice

Rural Chinese family’s week’s food

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Urban Chinese family’s week’s food

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Chinese Population Issues•Population growth

Revolutionary changesMortalityFertility

•Ethnic compositionHan ChineseOthers

•Spatial distributionmostly in eastUrbanization/transport

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© W.H. Freeman & Co.

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South China

What world city since 1990 has built almost 3,000 buildings with 18 or more stories?

© Bret Wallach

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Chinese history (briefly!)

•Chinese dynasties from 200s BC to ~ 1800

•European trade and influence 1700s onward

•Japanese empire

•Post WWII - rise of Communists

Japanese Empire in WW II