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In fact, the government is working towards a target of having 1/15th of a ha of productive farmland for each citizen by the year 2030.

1 hectare (ha) = 2.47 acres (approximately)

1/15 ha = 0.165 acres

Hmmmmm... That's quite a bit less than 40 acres and a mule.

Thanks for this Article. China is finding out more and more that the best thing the Central planners can do, is to leave people to figure things out for themselves. The Chinese rural land dweller, has always had an economically poor, but yet happily sustainable existence. Even Kubilai Khan once remarked that they could live quite nicely on a small piece of land. Not much money in the proposition, but at least a small family housed and fed itself.

However, China does have plans to Urbanize it's productive center, with a huge long range plan. The Plans call for 3 large new Metropolitan cities, and 7 Bands that extend out from them and eventually overlap. Most of this plan seems to follow someof the theories of Human Geography that I studies in college.

In the Free world these areas are generally classed into what are Capital Cites, and then A, B, or C diminishing sized cities. They are classed by population, and equally important, the quantity and variety of the Good and services availlable, and the distances people were willing to travel to obtain the services or goods of each.

It appears though, that instead of allowing each of these areas to grow "naturally", they are going to take direct control from the start. This is going to be an interesting experiment. I think it is going to be tough, because technology changes quickly, and sometimes sends whole business down the tubes. Will these urbanized areas, be able to respond quickly enough, or be convertible to technologies fast enough to keep up with changes?

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