According to international speculation, India's population has officially surpassed that of the mainland this year, becoming the most populous country in the world. This has attracted some people to revel, as if India's "demographic dividend" era is coming, and China's "world factory" status will soon be replaced by India.
In fact, no one seriously discussed this issue, and it was all a conclusion that everyone reached. You should think about it, how did this population figure of India come about?
Obviously, it is not possible to add up the numbers of a person and a person face-to-face, and demographic tools are used.
I don't want to popularize the common sense of demographics, I just want to boil down this behavior to a simple way of constructing a population model, estimating the total population through sampling statistics, using data from other sources to make appropriate numerical corrections, and finally publishing the national population data.
This kind of sampling, statistics and calculation of big data can actually be used in many scientific fields, but the corresponding mathematical models are different. At the end of the day, it is impossible to use this mathematical model to obtain exactly the exact number of words, but it is possible to process the data to be processed to the equivalent level - for example, China and India have a population of more than 1 billion, while small Japan has a population of more than 100 million, and the very "large" Republic of Korea has a population of just over 50 million.
Considering that China's social management is relatively strict and the administrative hierarchy is sound, China's demographic data is relatively close to the real data. However, although India also has a complex administrative hierarchy, there is no guarantee that the Indian population will survive in some areas in a very chaotic way, so it is impossible to count the population of India very accurately.
To take an extreme example, you can think that the United States is a developed country, and theoretically there is no statistical depression, but can the real population on Loli Island be counted? Because of the complexity of ethnicity, religion, and social class, it is actually difficult for India to use the same benchmark for population statistics. To put it bluntly, India's population numbers are relatively large.
That said, the real Indian population figures are also likely to be larger than the data published now, or they may be much smaller than the data published now. According to the fact that India has to count cow dung into its GDP, India has always had the vanity idea of competing for the world's largest population and overpowering China, and the real Indian demographic figures are probably far smaller than the published figures.
Of course, in the information world controlled by Western discourse, India's approach cannot be said to be completely wrong, because the data can be "reasonably corrected".
But what India cannot compare with China in any way is that no matter how it is counted, India's territory is far lower than China's territory, which means that if China solves the problem of declining fertility, China's territory can support more people.
This brings us to the issue of population density.
Recently, a clip of Musk's interview last year leaked. Musk said -
Most of the Chinese population is concentrated in the eastern coastal areas, and most of the inland areas are uninhabited. If all the population in China's coastal areas were to be relocated to the inland areas, it would be a perfect solution to the population pressure. The Chinese population who moved to inland areas, if conditions permit, can choose solar power supply, and can completely use solar energy to solve all power supply problems.
Continental population density map
Now considering that China has the world's largest power generation capacity and the world's largest high-speed rail transportation mileage, If China vigorously develops the inland economy in the next few decades, the corresponding coastal population inflow, then the living environment of Chinese will be more relaxed than now, and the working environment is not as volatile as it is now, and the intelligent robot technology that serves human work and life has been vigorously applied and developed, and Chinese will have a new birth peak, and it is completely achievable for Chinese to return to the undisputed status of the world's largest population country.
Of course, this is thanks to the fact that our ancestors have left us such a vast land territory.
Here, I propose a new point of view, strictly speaking, that extends the view of other experts that China has the largest land surface area in the world and is fully capable of supporting more people living in China with a high quality of life.
As we know, current geography textbooks say that China's Yangtze River is 6,397 kilometers long, second only to the Nile River in Africa (6,670 kilometers) and the Amazon River in South America (6,400 kilometers), ranking third in the world.
However, some continental geographers have disputed this, arguing that these figures are nothing more than two-dimensional data measured on a flat map. The real river originates from the high mountains and flows into the ocean from high to low through the terrain. If we take into account the geographical disparity, according to the real three-dimensional geographical structure measurement, the Yangtze River passes through the three-level, second-class, first-class and three-level stepped terrain, according to the three-level technical measurement, its real length should be much longer than the length of the Nile River and the Amazon River, which flow mainly in relatively gentle areas.
Topography profile of the main stream of the Yangtze River
Of course, we can only understand this view from a logical point of view, and it is unlikely that the geographical community will re-measure the length of the world's rivers according to this standard, otherwise our physical geography textbooks will have to be revised on a large scale.
However, the expert's point is indeed of practical significance, because the Yangtze River is suitable for building a large number of hydroelectric power stations along the way because of the large drop in the area it passes through. With sufficient electricity, there will be sufficient energy power for national development and construction.
Similarly, if the problem of river drops is extended to the volume and surface area of mountain ranges, China is mountainous, with mountains accounting for about 65% of the land area. There are many mountains and many towering peaks, and the volume and surface area of the mountains are very large, and there are many mountains and valleys. This shows that the geological deposits are very rich, which means that the flora and fauna that live in the mountains are also very rich – China's animal resources alone account for one-eighth of the world's mammalian species, and China's higher plant species account for one-tenth of the world's species, and this is only a partial species count. China's abundant biological resources have a lot to do with the wide distribution of mountainous areas, many lofty mountains, and long mountains and valleys on the mainland.
Continental topography photographed by remote sensing satellites
In the underdeveloped era of the past, the many mountains and high mountains would bring the problem of inconvenient transportation. But with the advancement of science and technology, any terrain can become a place for human habitation in the future. The future society must be an era when resources are very tight and everyone uses various means to compete for resources.
China's topography has left us with abundant geological and biological resources. This is not only incomparable to India, but also to Russia, Canada, the United States, or Brazil, which have large territories.
Of course, we recognize this and not for show-off. On the contrary, we should keep a low profile, with heavy treasures, and thieves will naturally be worried. Of course, there is no possibility that China's land and resources will be directly taken away by outsiders, but we need to beware of internal thieves corrupting our resources.
Okay, let's talk about this topic first, and now I'll talk about a new topic.
When human beings enter the era of the sea of stars in the future, the people of the earth will engage in interstellar migration, guess which country the people from are the most adaptable to life on other planets in the solar system?
I think that nature is us Chinese. Because in addition to the lack of fjords, China has the most complete natural landforms in the world. As long as the Chinese thoroughly study the architectural design and survival plan in various terrains and landforms, and achieve the harmonious development of man and nature, China will lead the world in developing the survival mode of all-terrain landforms of human society in the future.
And now the observed habitable planets in the solar system have no animal and plant resources, no large-scale liquid water exists, showing dry mountain valley terrain and landforms, and this is our advantage - we will copy the experience of building and living in the mountains on the earth to extraterrestrial planets, the Chinese will soon transform the planets that can be immigrated into geological environments suitable for human survival, and complete the feat of large-scale human migration as soon as possible!
Our goal is the sea of stars, which will no longer be science fiction.