agriculture
china
- total area: 9,596,960 sq km
- land area: 9,326,410 sq km
- water area: 270,550 sq km
- climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
- terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east
- arable land use: 11.3%
- permanent crop land use:1.6%
- irrigated land: As of 2006 there is 629,380 sq km of irrigated land
- Total Renewable Water Resources: as of 2011, there was 2,840 cu km
- Total Freshwater Withdrawal Per Person: 409.9 cu m
- Freshwater Withdrawal:554.1 cu km
- Natural Hazards description:frequent typhoons, damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence
- Environmental Current Issues:air pollution from reliance on coal produces acid rain; China is the world's largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels; water shortages, particularly in the north; water pollution from untreated wastes; deforestation; estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic development; desertification; trade in endangered species
- Total Labor Force:804.2 million
- % of Labor Force in Agriculture:33.6%
- Agricultural Products description:world leader in gross value of agricultural output; rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish