Economic geography of China
- New York Oxford University Press 1988
- 404 p.
CHINA is the third largest country in the world, with the world's biggest population. It has rich natural resources and a varied physical environment, yet some 4,000 years after civilization began in China, the country was in a state of near collapse. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, there was very little modern industry, transport and communications were undeveloped, and agriculture the mainstay of the economy
was in a state of regression. Since 1949, however, great advances have been made in industrial and agricultural production in China.
The Economic Geography of China analyses the factors that have contributed to the changes in the distribution of production and examines the major achievements and problems that have occurred as a result of national economic construction policies.
Based on official figures to 1980, The Economic Geography of China was first published in Chinese by Commercial Press in Beijing in 1984. Translated by Commercial Press, this book is the first work of its kind available in English. It will prove a valuable reference tool for all who are interested in China's economic development to date and in the challenge posed by geographical factors in the continued reconstruction of the economy in the future.