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CONTEXT. The People's Republic of China was formed in 1949. At the time, its population was 550 million. People were encouraged to have children as they believed this gave them power, and the population more than doubled to 1.13 billion by 1990. The problem then was how to feed all these people !. China has a quarter of the world's population, but only:7% of the earth's land surface8% of the bio-climatic resources5% of fossil fuelsA large part of China is unusable due to mountains, deserts a29840
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