patterns+of+settlement

Most of the people live in the east southern part of china. why? because the population is higher in the east southern part of china. Their are more resources in this part for examples: hydroelectric power, petroleum, coal and natural gas. Those are the most populated ones. Others are copper, iron ore, tungsten, commercial fishing, gold, lead, silver,and tin. Most people don't live on the west side because mostly is desert, semiarid, and highland. Why isn't that most people don't live here because you really can't plant crops.The rivers and mountains are the Himalaya mountains, Altai mountains. The plateaus of the east side part of China are these; plateau of Tibet, Mongolian plateau and the North China Plain.