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Today China Scale & isolation Physical environments Agriculture

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2nd Hourly Monday Review session 7pm Sat 3/24, Saunders 220 OR 7:30 Pm Sun. 3/25 Votes? (enter West door) Exam covers Latin America & Caribbean (Ch. 4-5) SS Africa (Ch. 6) N Africa & SW Asia (Ch. 7) Europe (Ch. 8)

China: physical environment I China – huge ~ US with Alaska 3 regions (1st 2 in Central Asia region) “Outer” China Himalaya mountains and Tibetan plateau to the Southwest Gobi & Taklamakan deserts to the west and Northwest “Inner” China Isolated by mountains and deserts

China “proper” Physical Environment Climate China sub-regions Northeast China Plain / Manchuria The N. China Plain Huang He river (formally Yellow) Basins of the Chang Jiang (formally Yangtze) river Tropical southern China Environmental degradation and hazards

Manchuria

N China Plain

N China Plain

South China

Loess soils in the Guangzhong Basin http://www.greatmirror.com/ © Bret Wallach Loess soils in the Guangzhong Basin http://www.greatmirror.com/

Chinese Agriculture Major issues Huge population Little arable area Population is about 70% rural Very, very intensive 4 Agricultural Regions NE / Manchuria North China Plain South China Western oases and arid-semiarid grazing

Wheat & other upland crops

Wetland Rice

© Bret Wallach Guangzhong Basin

© Bret Wallach Guangzhong Basin

© Bret Wallach Guangzhong Basin

Guilin © Bret Wallach

Guilin © Bret Wallach

Yunnan Village: Hengdi © Bret Wallach

Chinese agriculture II Agriculture reform Pre-Communist (pre-1949) Communist changes Current reforms 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

© Peter Menzel Rural Chinese family’s week’s food

Urban Chinese family’s week’s food

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

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