But it's possible to make some interesting maps, even with the limitations: Northeastern China, the Southeast, and the West. Since I'm particularly interested in the southeast coast, here's a view of that. The colors express the variation for all of China, and of course you'll see different things by looking just at a province --by JOINing areapop3.dbf to existing shapefiles, as we've already done in ArcView4. So here's what I get for Guangdong and Guangxi:
Cities stand out quite clearly, since they're densely populated and generally small landscape units. And mountainous areas are, it shouldn't surprise, relatively sparsely populated.
I want you to use the areapop3.dbf data to make density maps of your provinces, and add them to the Province pages as PhotoShop-created .jpgs . That shouldn't take long, and shouldn't require any new skills --so it's a chance to consolidate your skills.