CHINA TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE ENOUGH FOOD TO OVER 1 BILLION PEOPLE PART 7 of 8

To show you how the Chinese were quickly using up their precious land, our next destination is the great northern plain of China. This is where the most crop is grown in China. (Picture scale: top to down 1500km)

Location 7: Xingtai, Hebei, China 37°35'54.1"N 114°55'20.8"E

If we zoom in to any location in the plain, for example, the Xingtai city, a 4th tier city, a “small” city with 7 million people. (Picture scale: top to down 60km).

This is actually quite scary to many people. The green fields are the farmlands. These white dots are actually villages. Each “dot” contains around 500 people. The larger white regions are towns with around 10k to 100k people.

As you can see, as more and more people are getting rich and building large houses on the farmlands, those green land would be running out gradually. It is estimated that China is losing around 3,000 km2 area of arable land every year. Those arable land would be turned into “white” and dead concrete land. This is obviously a disaster and the Chinese government has been trying every effort to regulate the land uses. However, you just can’t control the huge momentum of “urbanisation” so easily.