Due to the "Great Leap Forward", China suffered in the largest famine in human history in 1959-1961 and caused 30 million people starved to death--about to cover the number of births. It made an anomaly in the demographic model that to have a sudden increase in death rate in stage 2 with a shaping decrease in population within the nation. Human Causes. Under the ridiculous ideas of Mao, industrial productions had to be increased by all means …
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…hectare of land in the following ten years--The same size of 10 Hainan Province. 7% of Chinese soil was arable, however as the continuous land-losing, China has fewer land for farming. The food production will eventually go down and food shortage will appear. Disastrous famine may exist. On the other hand, due 70% of water in China is useless, and also ¾ of Chinese rivers had been polluted, China is facing a serious shortage of water.