To bring electricity to the 1.3 billion people in China is a challenge due to the terrain. If we count only land, America is the third largest country and China the second. Russia is first.
To give you an idea, America has 922,095,840 square miles of cropland to feed 4.5% of the earth’s population. China, by comparison, has 247,878,000 square miles of farmland to feed 20% of the earth’s population. The rest of the land is either desert or mountains.
Currency from the Song Dynasty
Never forget that during the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD), China had the highest per capital production and income in the world. At the time, China’s GDP was the largest in the world until the middle of the 19th century when Western Imperial colonial powers invaded China winning two Opium Wars. Source: ELSA Berkeley.edu
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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