NATIONAL FLAG, NATIONAL EMBLEM, NATIONAL CAPITAL, NATIONAL ANTHEM|ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES|NATURAL RESOURCES|CLIMATE|POPULATION, ETHNIC GROUPS |
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Land Resources |
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China now has 130.04 million hectares of cultivated land mainly distributed in Northeast China Plain, North China Plain, and the plain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and in the Pearl River Delta and Sichuan Basin. The fertile land in Northeast China Plant is chiefly planted with wheat, corn, sorghum, soybean, jute and ambary hemp, and sugar beet. Farm crops planted in North China Plain include wheat, corn, millet, sorghum, cotton and peanut. The plain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River produces rice, orange and rapeseed, while Sichuan Basin abounds in rice, rapeseed, sugarcane, orange, tea, etc. |