China and the Chinese
China: 1.35 billion people
• Compared with:
• All Latin America: 590 million
• All of Europe (including all of Russia and all of Turkey): 857 million
The Most Populous Provinces
• Guangdong: 104 million– would rank 14th in the world, below the
Philippines (106 million)
• Shandong: 96 million
• Henan: 94 million– would rank 15th in the world (Ethiopia)
• Sichuan: 80 million– would rank 19th in the world, below Turkey
Population Density
Regional Differences
Geography
Arable Land
The West
East-West Divide
Urban-Rural Divide
Urbanization
• China’s urban population exceeded the number of rural dwellers for the first time in history by 2011
• 3/4 of Chinese will live in cities by 2034
“floating population”
• 221 million
• 160 million rural migrant workers
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Environmental Problems
• large population
• economic expansion
• limited natural resources
• tension between maximizing economic growth and protecting environment
• sustainable development
• human health