“40 million people” would be only about 3% of the population. I’m sure the number without electricity is more like 400 million
Not quite. Since China has a population of about 1.2 billion, that would be one-third of the population.
Nationally, almost 97 per cent of Chinese households have access to electricity and yet there are still 30 million people, primarily those in areas remote from the power grid, who lack access