China lost it’s America-sized Eastern Lands to Tsarist Russia in the 1800’s. A huge emotional blow for the nation every Chinese citizen knows. It contributed directly to the overthrow of the ...

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.

China's Chang'e-4 probe landed in the the oldest ... Next, the lander will release a rover that will explore the surrounding area. One of its tasks is to study the composition of rocks and dirt ...

Its river basin is around 1.8 million sq km – almost a fifth of China's land area. As China’s economy has developed, pollution in the Yangtze and its lakes has multiplied – particularly from ...

with forest coverage exceeding 25 percent of its total land area -- up from 12 percent in the early 1980s. China is also home to the world's largest total human-made forest area. In 2024 alone, China ...