Chapter 9 " China's Industry, Energy, Trade, and Transportation in a Global Context"

After the end of the Community Revolution of 1949, Beijing has become one of China's most industrial centers. The Chinese government funded major development of heavy industry in Beijing during the 1950's and 60's. This led to the modernization of the Iron and Steel Works, which became one of the nation's main steel-producing facilities. Beijing now has highly developed machinery, textile, and petrochemical sectors, as well as an important agricultural sector to reduce its dependence on food supplies shipped from the Yangtze Valley. The service sector in China is also growing very rapidly. These sectors mainly consist of government agencies and the head offices of the largest banks in China. Major insurance companies, credit cooperatives, securities firms, investment companies, and tourism companies are a few of the many financial institutions in China. Beijing and its industries continue to grow rapidly each and every day.

Chapter 8 " Agriculture: From Antiquity to Revolution to Reform"

Due to Beijing's rapid economic growth and urbanization ever since 1984, it has been leading to resources and environmental problems. Such problems were cropland decrease, environmental deterioration, and traffic jams. In order to improve the urban environment, more space for glades and trees are needed. One of the problem that Beijing has faced was the central government's decision where they had to choose between keeping the cropland/ planting more trees and enlarging the glades.

Chapter 7 "A Preface to China's Changing Economic Geography"

Beijing's economy is expected to grow. After the government focused more on rebalancing the economy and improving it's growth model in recent years, Beijing's economic quality was relatively high and in the lead in China. Beijing's GRP growth has entered a new quality oriented era and 2013 will see a stable growth as China's economic growth bottomed and the world economy keeps improving.

Chapter 5 "Population and Human Resources"

Even though China’s capital city is Beijing, it’s not the most popular one of them all. Beijing’s population density is rounded up to be about 3,300 people per square mile. Beijing’s average number of children a woman can have in her lifetime is below the world average especially due to the one child policy.

Population Growth

In the 10 years between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, the population of Beijing has been growing in a great speed by 44% from 13,569,194 in 2000 to 19,612,368 in 2010. Beijing’s current population is about 20,693,000. Beijing is expected to see more increase of senior citizens every year until 2020. Beijing is facing a rapid growth in its elderly population.

Land area. Birth rates. Population growing?