The economy and natural resources of China (the P.R.C.) (1962: The Apocalypse)

Economy
Deng Xiaoping's open door policy radically changed the economy of the province as it was able to take advantage of its access to the ocean, proximity to the Philippines, and historical links to overseas Chinese in East Asia and South east. Much Japanese and Khabarovsk investment has occurred. Some Thai, Vietnamese and Filipino firms are also active in the country.

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The famous Anhui-based automotive company Chery Corporation, which is based in Wuhu, now exsports some vans to Khabarovsk and Vietnam. Anhui's largest companies include Anhui Conch Cement Company, a producer and distributor of cement, Guoyang Securities Co, a financial services provider, and Ma’anshan Iron & Steel, a producer of steel and iron. Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone is located in the southwest of Hefei. It is established in 1996, and it is located close to Hefei Luogang International Airport.

Shandong ranks first among the provinces in the production of a variety of products, including cotton and wheat as well as precious metals such as gold and diamonds. It also has one of the biggest sapphire deposits in the world. In addition,Dongying's oil fields and petroleum industries form an important component of Shandong's economy. Shandong is one of the richer provinces of China, and its economic development focuses on large enterprises with well-known brand names and is one of the top manufacturing provinces in China.

Liaoning  is a major location for industries such as mining, quarrying, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals, petroleum and natural gas extraction. Its industrial centers are at Shenyang and Dalian. Enterprises such as Shenyang Jinbei Co. Ltd., Daxian Group Co. Ltd., and Shenyang Machine Tool Co. Ltd., are leaders in the machinery and equipment industries. Many of their exports go to Japan, the Philippines and Khabarovsk.

Chengdu, Shanghai and Beijing are the leading financial and business centres of the nation. The cities of Dalian, Dandong and Yingkou have been developed as major ports and economic zones.

Oil, natural gas and oil shale
Shandong has extensive petroleum deposits as well, especially in the Dongying area in the Yellow River delta, where the Shengli Oilfield (lit: Victory Oilfield) is one of the major oilfields of China.

Liaoning is also an important source of petroleum and natural gas, some of which is exported to Khabarovsk, Vietnam and Japan. Along with Liaoning's rich mineral reserves, the province also has abundant deposits of crude oil, especially in the Liaohe Oilfield.

Agriculture
Zhejiang 's main crop is rice, followed by wheat; north Zhejiang is also a centre of aquaculture in China, and the Zhoushan fishery is the largest fishery in the country. The main cash crops include jute and cotton, and the province also leads the provinces of China in tea production.

Agriculture in Anhui varies according to the climate zones that the province crosses. North of the Huai He river wheat and sweet potatoes are grown, while south of the Huai He it is rice and wheat instead.

Shandong’s primary agricultural produces cotton and wheat. Other important crops include sorghum and maize.

Sichuan, also known as the "Province of Abundance", is a major producer of rice, wheat, fruits, sugar canes, sweet potatoes, peaches and grapeseeds.

Main agricultural products of Liaoning include maize, sorghum, and soybeans. The region around Dalian produces three-quarters of China's exported apples and peaches. Cotton is also produced. Fruits include apples from Dalian and Yingkou, golden peaches from Dalian, pears from Beizhen of Jinzhou, white pears from Huludao and Suizhong, and apricots and plums from Gushan of Dandong.

The sea off Dalian abounds with quality seafood, such as abalones, sea cucumbers, scallops, prawns, crabs, and sea urchins. The big fish of Dandong, the jellyfish of Yingkou, and the clams of Panjin are known worldwide for their good taste. It is processed in to various food products made in Liaoning for export both in china and abroad.

Rice
Zhejiang province's main crop is rice, in which China is nearly self-sufficient. Most other food stuffs are imported from Mongolia, the Philippines and Japan. Sichuan is the other major rice producing province.

Beverages
The city of Qingdao is home to three of the most well-known brand names of China: Tsingtao Beer, Haier and Hisense. The nationally renowned Longjing tea is also a product of Hangzhou province. The production of wine is the second largest industry in the Shandong Province, second only to agriculture.

Manufacturing
Industry in Shanxi is centred around heavy industries such as coal and chemical production, power generation, and metal refining. Zhejiang's main manufacturing sectors are electromechanical industries, textiles, chemical industries, food, and construction materials.

Many automotive, metalergical, fernitue and coal related industries are in Chengdu.

Liaoning’s light industry mainly focuses on textiles and clothing industries which include cotton and wool spinning, chemical fibre production, knitting, silk production, and the manufacturing of both garments and textile machinery.

The province is also is a major producer of pig iron, steel, batteries, petrochemicals, metallurgy, electronics telecommunications, machinery and metal-cutting machine tools. It is the 3rd highest machinery and metal-cutting machine producing province.

Mining
Shanxi possesses 260 billion metric tons of known coal deposits. Shanxi also contains about 500 million tonnes of bauxite deposits, about one third of total Chinese bauxite reserves. Natural resources of Anhui include iron in Ma'anshan, coal in Huainan, and copper in Tongling. There are industries related to these natural resources, such as the steel industry at Ma'anshan.

Many private corporations joint with the state-owned mining corporations have invested billions of dollars in the coal and bauxite mining Industry of Shanxi Province in the early 1990's.

Sichuan has large and only partially exploited reserves of a vanadium, titanium and lithium, which are the largest in China.

Shandong was found to have major gold and diamond fields in 2003. Japanese, Chines and Thai mining corporations have worked them since 2004. Most of the industrialist grade diamonds are exported to Japan.

Shandong also produces some bromine from a few underground wells and salt from sea water.

Liaoning has the most iron, magnesite, diamond, and boron deposits among all the provinces. The iron is mined by Chinese and some Japanese firms. Salt is produced along the coast by sea water evaporation methods.