China+and+Taiwan

=__CHINA decides to cancel bid for 2018 winter Olympics__ = China will not submit a bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2018. State media said Wednesday that both Harbin and Changchun in the northeast of the country had been ruled out as possible bidders. The official Xinhua News Agency said Harbin in Heilongjiang province had been turned down by China's sports governing body. It said Harbin - which bid for the 2010 Winter Games but failed to make the final shortlist - lacked the required infrastructure in comparison to other bid cities

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Growth Rate- .238%

Population Density
As you can see in the map below, a majority of China's people live on the coastlines of the country. You can tell why China is so crowded and clustered, because everyone lives basically together. China has the largest population in the world (1.3 billion). China has a fairly small density (138 per sq. kilometer) but so many people live on the east side of China near the coasts that it is very crowded. 

Taiwan, though it is not one of the most populated countries it is by far has one of the most dense populations. Taiwan has nearly 639 people per Kilometer. Taiwan is only 35,980 sq. kilometers big and it has 23,036,087 people living there.

As you can tell China sticks out immensely compared to the other countries on the earth.

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= __China 'unfairly seen as eco-villain'__ =  China's rapid economic expansion in recent years has been matched by its increasingly voracious appetite for energy and natural resources, says William Bleisch. But, as he explains in this week's Green Room, the nation has sometimes been unfairly portrayed as the world's biggest environmental villain.

China's increasing demand for food and other commodities would soon drive world prices to record highs.

And as the nation's energy and mining industries have ventured beyond the nation's borders, they have turned out to be every bit as rapacious and unethical as western companies can be; perhaps more so, since they do not have to answer to an open press and domestic outrage. = = For full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8100988.stm

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A Buddha shaped pear is displayed at an orchard in Weixian county, Hebei province September 10, 2009. Hao Xianzhang, a local famer, spent six years to perfect the process by growing the pears inside molds. The pears cost around 50 yuan ($7.32) each. =====

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