Land use in China
China has four times the population of the U.S., within roughly the same area. With 1.3 billion inhabitants, 20% of the world’s population lives in China. While the rate of population growth has been declining for decades, the total number of inhabitants has been growing and is expected to do so through 2030. China’s urban population is growing rapidly; between 1950 and 2009, the percentage of the population living in urban areas quadrupled from 14% to 48%. Meanwhile, the rural population is declining, opening the landscape in areas that are not urbanized. The forests and farming land of eastern China support far more people and major cities than do the grasslands, deserts, and high mountain regions of the west.
Chinese people in Germany
The German Chinese community has seen a rapid growth in recent years. In 2016, there were 136,460 nationals of the People's Republic of China living in Germany, a 35% increase over 2013. The number of Taiwanese citizens living in the country stood at 5,885 (as of 2013). In addition, there is a large number of Chinese people who naturalized as German citizens or who are natively born in the country. Between 2004 and 2007 alone, 4,213 PRC nationals naturalised as German citizens. In addition to that, the Chinese community in Germany also consists of tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese from countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.