TSENG CHIN-SUEN
1. The natural region of South China here discussed is approximately the same ae the Chung Hua Ti Li, Chih (Geography of the People's Republic of China) . 2: The climate in this region is moneoonal and tropical, with a thermal summer lasting over 8 months but without any thermal winter. However, occasional invasion by cold waves happens. The annual rainfall exceeds 1,200 mm on the lowland and 2,000 mm in mountains (Taiwan exceeds 8,000). Two or three visits of typhoons are in a year. Seasonality is relatively well marked.