Farm expansion in China under the People's Government has depended above all on intensification, and present signs are that it will continue to do so. Intensification in this sense is increase in production per unit area. This may already seem somewhat dated but in rural China little has changed. The World Bank in a secret report has said that some 30 million have been evicted from their homes in the past four decades to make room for road, railway and reservoir projects and there's more to come. When countries modernise these days they become Americanised, and often lose their cultural identity.
China is exceptional.