years to over 544.6 billion dollars by
             the early 1990s. Agriculture reached even the rural areas. The industrial output
             through manufacturing, mining, electricity generation and building and
             construction grew at an amazing rate. (Microsoft Encarta).
             Prior to WWII the area known as Manchuria was called Manchukuo, This
             prime area of land provides most of China's food and industrial wealth. In the
             center of this region sugar beets, soybeans and wheat are grown. This is China's
             largest and most fertile farming area totaling 140,000 square miles. (McLenighan
             43). For years the Chinese operated under a feudal system, whereby the land was
             owned by a small few who depended on their peasant farmers to pay their rents.
             The taxes levied against them by the imperial government caused very little profit
             to be made. It was not until 1949 when the Communist Party established a unified
             government, with an emphasis placed on slowing the rate of inflation an
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