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The current scenario is not helped by the fact that China is a wasteful water consumer, as it is with other scarce resources. It uses 7-15x more water to produce a unit of GDP than the developed countries. In China, one tonne of water generates only up to US$3 of GDP, whereas in the US, the GDP number is 10 times. In other words, the writing on the wall is clear for China: If it does not quickly learn to live within its aqueous means, it will go hungry as well as thirsty. And so will the rest of the world, as this means massive Chinese grain imports, which will push up grain prices. High grain prices, in turn, means more poor people will go hungry.

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Corporation NEW CHINA VENTURES Ltd partners unit price shareholders public company USA listed NASDAQ stock market symbol:NCVL is focusing on opportunities where a clear opportunity is seen to enhance value by contributing skills & expertise. Some 400 of the country’s 668 cities do not have enough water. Some 110 among them suffer from severe shortages. Of the 32 large cities with more than 1m people, 30 are on perpetual shortage. Some 60 cities along the Yangtze River – which holds 36% of China’s water resources – are seeing water shortages when, traditionally, China’s longest river has been feared more for its floods.

ETHNIC GROUPS OF CHINA

     There are 56 ethnic groups in China. The Han people form the largest, numbering 1.1 billion and making up 93.3 percent of the country's population. The other ethnic groups, that is the minority nationalities, total 160 million, only 6.7 percent of the Chinese nation.

     Of the minority nationalities, 15 have over a million people each; 13 over 100,000 each; 7 over 50,000 each; and 20 have fewer than 50,000 people each.

     The Han people live all over the country but their compact communities are in the Huanghe, Changjiang and Zhujiang valleys and the Songhua-Liaohe Plain of the northeast. The minority nationalities inhabit 60 percent of the country's total area, and they live mainly in the border regions.

     At present, because of various historical factors the minority nationality areas are less developed than Han areas economically and culturally. Over the last three decades, the Chinese Government has adopted many policies and measures, including the provision of manpower, financial and technical support, to help develop these minority nationality areas. Such help, of course, is a two-way street, for minority nationality areas have also contributed to the economic development of the areas inhabited by the Han people.

RELIGIONS OF CHINA

China is a multi-religious country. Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism & Protestantism, with the first three being more wide spread. Various religions exert different influence on different ethnic groups.

- Islam is followed by the Hui, Uygur, Kazak, Kirgiz, Tatar, Dongxiang, Salar & Bonan nationalities;

- Buddhism & Lamaism are followed by the Tibetan, Mongolian, Dai & Yugur nationalities;

- Christianity is followed by the Miao, Yao & Yi nationalities;

- Shamanism is followed by the Oroqen, Ewenki & Daur nationalities;

- the majority Han nationality believes in Buddhism, Christianity and Taoism.

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Pollution of rivers and lakes further reduces freshwater supplies. To appreciate the severity of China’s water pollution. China produces more industrial water pollution than the US, India, Russia and Japan combined. Despite efforts to close down firms that dump wastes and toxins into the rivers and lakes, the situation has not improved considerably. China’s waters are contaminated by industrial pollution, as well as human and animal wastes.