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  2. List of countries by salt production - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by salt production. The six leading salt producers in the world, China, the United States, India, Germany, Canada, and Australia, account for more than half of the worldwide production. The first table includes data by the British Geological Survey (BGS) for countries with available statistics.

  3. Salt in Chinese history - Wikipedia

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    The Zigong Salt Museum preserves one well to demonstrate the traditional methods, [59] but by 2011, China's production of table salt was the largest in the world. In 2014, the Chinese government announced plans to end the salt monopoly and government price controls starting from 2016.

  4. China National Salt Industry Corporation - Wikipedia

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    China National Salt Industry Corporation (Chinese: 中国盐业总公司; pinyin: Zhōngguó yán yè zǒng gōngsī), abbreviated as China Salt (Chinese: 中盐; pinyin: zhōng yán), is a state-owned enterprise of China which controls a monopoly [failed verification] over the management and production of edible salt. [2]

  5. Salt mining - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Chinese gradually mastered and advanced the techniques of producing salt. Salt mining was an arduous task for them, as they faced geographical and technological constraints. Salt was extracted mainly from the sea, and salt works in the coastal areas in late imperial China equated to more than 80 percent of national production. [5]

  6. Discourses on Salt and Iron - Wikipedia

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    Discourses on Salt and Iron: A Debate on State Control of Commerce and Industry in Ancient China, Chapters I-XIX (Leyden: E. J. Brill Ltd., 1931; rpr, Taipei, Ch'engwen, 1967, including Esson M. Gale, Peter Boodberg, and T.C. Liu, "Discourses on Salt and Iron" Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 65: 73

  7. Salt - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, total world production of salt was 300 million tonnes, the top six producers being China (68 million), the United States (42 million), India (29 million), Germany (13 million), Canada (13 million) and Australia (12 million).

  8. History of salt - Wikipedia

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    The open-pan salt making method was used along the Lincolnshire coast and in the salt marshes of Bitterne Manor on the banks of the River Itchen in Hampshire, where salt production was a notable industry. [22] Wich and wych are names associated (but not exclusively) with brine springs or wells in England. Originally derived from the Latin vicus ...

  9. Xiechi Lake - Wikipedia

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    Xiechi Lake (Chinese: 解池), also called Yuncheng yanchi (Yuncheng Salt Lake) is the largest natural lake in Shanxi in Northern China. It is a saline lake [1] used for production of salt. In the summertime intense light and heat cause the algae Dunaliella salina to produce carotenoids as a protection against free radicals, due in turn to high ...