Chinese Farm Population in 1930

2. Farm Population in Millions -- 1930

The exact figures in this map should be treated with some caution. Thus the farming population in the 1930s was clearly well above the 301 millions' indicated in this map. The composite picture it gives of regional variations in the last peacetime period of Chinese agriculture under the family farm system is accurate enough. Used with imagination it can summon to the mind's eye the great differences in wealth and in the settlement patterns among peasants in different parts of China.