德意志民主共和国人民的生活水平较高,科学、教育和文化都很发达,工业水平也高,是世界第十位工业大国。但是,从幅员来说,它在欧洲国家中并不算大,人均土地面积只有4市亩多一点,在东欧国家中是最少的一个。为了开采褐煤,每年还要吞蚀掉2.2万多亩土地。因此,民主德国十分珍惜土地。为了不减少、甚至还要增加农业用地,他们采取了许多措施。例如,对因采矿等原因而被长期废弃的土地进行土壤改造,重新种上庄稼。象这样再生的农业用地,1975年有75万亩,1980年增到约190万亩。他们还在垃圾场上动脑筋。早在七十年代,他们就办了75个处理垃圾的工厂,从3,500个小 The people of the German Democratic Republic have a high standard of living, a well-developed science, education and culture, and a high industrial standard. They are the tenth industrialized country in the world. However, in terms of its size, it is not large in European countries. Its per capita land area is only slightly larger than 4 and it is the least among Eastern European countries. In order to exploit lignite, it has to devour more than 22,000 acres of land each year. Therefore, democratic Germany cherishes the land very much. In order not to reduce or even increase agricultural land, they have taken many measures. For example, the land that has been abandoned for a long time due to mining and other causes is rehabilitated and replanted. As for the agricultural land regenerated like this, there were 75 million mu in 1975 and about 1.9 million mu in 1980. They are still on the rubbish ground. As early as the seventies, they ran 75 factories that handle rubbish, from 3,500 small