The purpose of this paper is to discuss environmental ploblems in Chinafrom the following three dimensions: I Fundamental conditions; historicaldetriomental assetts, geographecal and meteological conditions, rapid growth of huge population, gigantic quantity of enviroinmental pollution. II Basic factors; a pressure of the rapid growth of huge population, socio-economic and-political policies of the government. III Some propo- sals; economic poilicies for curtailing environmental pollution-raising, social policies to raise public awareness of environmental problems.

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The industry of non-ferrous mineral resources is in worsidwide recession, while Communism in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union has collapsed and thedetent has progressed. On the contrary, China is growing economy. It continues to show double-figure economic grows. There is increasing demand for non-ferrous mineral resources centering arround private needs.Especially alminum and copper are in greate demand and China imports from a lot. China is considered to be resourceful. Considering chinese population and economic growth in world economic crisis, the situation is not satisfactory at all. Because they have many difficult problems especially environmental issues.

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To study China's environmental issues several basic knowledges on her are required. They are government, policies, practices, population, economics, industries, technologies, sciences, educations etc. Natural environments such as geography, geology, climate, waters, animals, vege-tation etc. must be understood. This paper describes China's climate in brief for better understanding her and for a help on her environmental reserach. At first China's unique geography was analyzed and simmiarized in a table. Then, China is classified into 9 climates mainly by tempera-ture accumlation and one plateau climate. Each climate is defined and provinces are assigned. Monthly average temperature and precipitation of39 Chinese cities and 4 reference cities are summarized in a large table.Finally China's three particular climates and window are explained to some extent.

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The communications and transportation system of China in 2000's has been considered by the chinese government at a strategic position for achieving the four modernizations of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology. This paper describles the present situation, existent problems, and works out a developping plan about the communications and transportation of China. It includes the railway transport, the way transport, the water transport, the ocean transport, the civil aviation transport and the pipe transport.

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This paper describes possible energy condition of 21st century by estimating energy demand and supply
Comparison of three demand scenarios and a possible supply scenario leads a conclusion that three conditions would be important for humanbeings survival;
· Raise life quality in developing countries in the early stage by supplying energy which would result in reducing population growth rate.
· Economic growth should less depend on energy by spreading high energy technologies, finding another economic growth path than energy consuming industry dependent sonciety.
· Every energy supply development such as renewable energy or nuclear energy is urgent in despite of the efforts above.

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