Due to the "Great Leap Forward", China suffered in the largest famine in human history in 1959-1961 and caused 30 million people starved to death--about to cover the number of births. It made an anomaly in the demographic model that to have a sudden increase in death rate in stage 2 with a shaping decrease in population within the nation. Human Causes. Under the ridiculous ideas of Mao, industrial productions had to be increased by all means …showed first 75 words of 623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 623 total…hectare of land in the following ten years--The same size of 10 Hainan Province. 7% of Chinese soil was arable, however as the continuous land-losing, China has fewer land for farming. The food production will eventually go down and food shortage will appear. Disastrous famine may exist. On the other hand, due 70% of water in China is useless, and also ¾ of Chinese rivers had been polluted, China is facing a serious shortage of water.