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