Covering an area of 56,000 square kilometers, which is less than 0.6 percent of the country's total land area ... It stands as one of China's most open and economically dynamic areas, and is ...

When describing China's cultivated land and mineral resources, people often use many huge numbers. Cultivated land, forests, grasslands, deserts and tidelands are distributed widely across China.

THE greater part of China's millions exist not live—on the starvation line, The grim spectre of famine stalks about the land, “Have you eaten ?”is the common salutation. Yet, in spite of wars.

2002 and promulgated by Order No. 73 of the President of the People's Republic of China on August 29, 2002.