> > World's biggest consumer of cement and steel.
> >
> I don't recall ever hearing much about what China has or doesn't have
> in the way of its OWN natural resources...  It seems to me that they
> have a big enough land mass that they ought to be net producers of a lot
> of raw materials...
> 
> BillW

That's long bothered me, as well.  Does it have something to do with
the agrarian nature of the populace, or have they expanded their
manufacturing base at the expense of their resource harvesting base?

Perhaps they are trying to speed up their production to reach a level
proportional to the US in population terms, without that pesky two
hundred years of developing a resource harvesting infrastructure first.

Mike H.
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