Paying the price for China’s growth

The sheer scale of China’s economic transformation is matched only by the size of the new challenges and dangers it has created.
None is bigger than the threat to the environment.

Feeding a fifth of the world’s people on 7% of its arable land was never easy – and that land is now shrinking at a rate of 1m hectares a year.

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