Jahil honay see unperh hona behter hay, an uncle of mine would say.
About 300 million of total 1.3 billion of population live in western China and you say no one lives in western china! Survey conducted in 2008 showed 17% of urban population lived in western region and you think that region is waste land.
So what you're saying is it's pointless to develop underdeveloped area. Don't know how things work out in India the world otherwise prefer developing underdeveloped areas over already developed areas.
Region is not well developed that's why they are trying to develop it. I am nor speaking Persian, am I?
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I think you have lost your psychological balance because what I have written is correct, and there is no logical retort to that from your side.
I do not know from where you pulled out that 300 million figure.
Following provinces are close to your corridor
1. XinXiang: Area 1664900 Sq Km; Pop 22.09 million
2. Qinghai: Area 720,000 Sq km; Pop 5.58 million
3. Gansu : Area 425,800 Sq Km; Pop 25.64 million
4. Inner Mongolia: Area 1183,000Sq Km; Pop 24.82 million
5. Tibet: Area 1228400 Sq Km; Pop 3.145 million
Total area of these provinces = 5222100 Sq km. This is 54% of Total area of China , and an area 6.6 times that of Pakistan; while its population is just
81 million (not 300 as you stated) which is 6% of Chines population and less than half (0.44 times) of Pakistani population.
This is the extent of how sparsely populated Western part of China is. You share border with Takla Makan desert of China.
And you seem to have quite exotic delusion about growth potential of Western China. Highway and Economic corridors brings prosperity when Economic depression of a region is due to that region being cut off from rest of country. In this case, underdevelopment is due to geographical factors, not due to infrastructure factors. Deserts, cold arid Plateaus, and mountains reduce your Economic potential (unless you harness them for tourism like Switzerland).
You could not put up factories in desert. You could not built cities in desert (Las Vegas would not count as that city exist because of Hoover dam). An area with such low population density does not have consumer base to build consumption driven economy. You could not build service industry in desert ,or any other low population density area because there is not enough qualified labour at any place,
That is most wrong to be saying that. China is the largest buyer of US Bonds.
China is not selling any T-bills, but neither is it buying any.
http://www.treasury.gov/ticdata/Publish/mfh.txt
In Feb 2014,mainland China had $1.272 Tn as T-bills. In Feb 2015,mainland China had $1.223Tn as T-Bills. Which means a net drop ie sale of 49 billion