All About CHINA

2. The grasslands, forests and cultivated
lands of China are the world’s largest to
terms of sheer area. However, if we divide
the total cultivated land of China by it’s
population of more than 1.4 billion, only
about 0.08 per capital is available.
China’s 128.63 million hectares is covered with
forests. The best known natural forest areas of
China are the :
Greater Hinggan
The Lesser Hinggan
And the Changbai mountain ranges.

6. Quite a number of major tree species found here
include conifers as Korean pine and larch and
broadleaves such as white birch oak and elm.

7. The composition and distribution of
China’s land resources have three
major characteristics. First, is the
variety in type of land resources.
The types of land resources can be
cultivated lands , forests, grasslands
, even deserts and beaches. About
95.65 million hectares of land
resources are cultivated lands and
are found in the Northeast Plain ,
the North China Plain and the Middle
Lower Yangtze.

11. Second , there are more
mountainous and hilly areas than
flat lands. Third is the unbalanced
distribution. This is so because the
farmland is mainly concentrated in
the plains in the east. Grasslands
are mainly found in the plateaus
and mountainous areas of the
west and north and the forests are
mainly found in the outermost
northeast and south-west.

12. In mineral resources, China ranks third on the world in total
reserves (about 148 different minerals) and all the world’s
known minerals can be found here. Mineral resources include
coal , petroleum , natural gas , and oil shale.

13. Radioactive minerals include uranium
and thorium. The world’s 1/3 total coal
reserves, about 966.8 billion total coal
found in China. China’s reserve of rare
earth metals far exceeds the total for
the rest of the world. Ferrous metals
that are found in China include iron ,
manganese , vanadium and titanium.
In addition, China also has some of the
world’s largest reserves of tungsten ,
tin antimony , zinc , lead and mercury.