China may never run out of people, but it may run out of greenery! According to an estimated statistic, China has twenty percent of the world’s population and just nine percent of its cultivating farmland. "Throughout Chinese history, our land was never enough," said Tian Zhihong, a professor of international agriculture at China Agricultural University. Unfortunately, China suffers from continuous droughts. To make matters worse, China within recent decades has further damaged the soil with industrial pollution and pavement as part of the rush towards economic development. Therefore, China is left with a low supply and high demand of agricultural products. However, many realized that to operate a farm over seas surprisingly is a better deal than to plow the motherland. "We want to bring American sunshine, land and water back to China," said Zhang Renwu, a businessman who owns two farms in Utah growing alfalfa to feed dairy cows. As absurd as the idea is, it truly brings in a great profit. In a paper published in 2012 by the Canada-based International Institute for Sustainable Development, it is confirmed that fifty-four Chinese projects internationally exist - covering almost twelve-million acres. For example, reportedly 30,000 Chinese farmers have been growing cash crops in Siberia.
Instead of looking elsewhere, China should put its investments into revamping up their land again before it is gone for good.
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