Total Area: 9,596,960 sq km
Land Area: 9,326,410 sq km
Water Area: 270,550 sq km
Climate Description: Extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
Terrain Description: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east
Arable Land Use: 11.3%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 1.6%
Irrigated Land: 690,070 sq km
Total Renewable Water Resources: 2,840 c u km
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 554.1 cu km/yr
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 409.9 c u m/yr
Natural Hazards Description: frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence
Environmental Current Issues: Air pollution (greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal produces acid rain; China is the world's largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels; water shortages, particularly in the north; water pollution from untreated wastes; deforestation; estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic development; desertification; trade in endangered species
Total Labor Force: 804 million
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 33.6%
Agricultural Products Description: World leader in gross value of agricultural output; rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish
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China produces more than a third of the world's rice. They are also the world's leading producer of raw cotton and the leading exporter of wheat and oilseeds
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China makes 33 million tons of soybeans a year, which is 16 percent of the world's total. Most soybeans are made in Heilongjiang province in the northeast
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China’s total grain production to 349.3 million tons in 2014-15, compared with 348.2 million the year before. It includes 126.2 million tons of wheat, up from 121.9 million tons the year before
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Wheat starch is used mostly in conjunction with rice and sweet rice flours to make certain wrappers used to make various kinds of dim sum dumplings. Popular to be made in Shijiazhuang.
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China overuses nitrogen fertilizer and it's poisoning the air, soil, and water. They can use less and still the crops would be fine.
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