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Sichuan is the region with the richest human resources in Song Dynasty.

In 965, there were 530,000 households in Pingshuo and Xia Chuan Road in the Northern Song Dynasty. Yuanfeng reached1790,000 households in three years (1080); In the first year of Chongning (1 102), there were1980,000 households; In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 162), there were 2.6 million households. In the second year of Xichun (1 175), there were 2.58 million households; In the sixteenth year of Jiading (1223), there were 2.59 million households.

In the past 200 years, the number of families on Xia Chuan No.4 Road has increased fivefold. Such a huge population accounted for 7% of the total number of households in the Song Dynasty in the early Northern Song Dynasty, 10% in the middle, and over 20% in the Southern Song Dynasty, making it the most populous area in China.

Its population density was 45 people per square kilometer in the first year of Chongning, and 56 people per square kilometer in Jiading sixteen years. In the 16th year of Tongchuan Fu Road, Jiading had a population of 38 people per square kilometer, which surpassed Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan West Road, which were the most economically developed and densely populated in China at that time, and was the most densely populated area in China.

The abundant human resources in Sichuan in Song Dynasty promoted the economic development of Sichuan and became an important basis for offering tribute to the country.