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Detailed explanation-1: -China is the largest gold producer in the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 2021, gold mines in China produced the most gold throughout the Asia-Pacific region, in which approximately 329 thousand tons of gold was produced. Comparatively, gold mines in South Korea produced approximately two hundred tons of gold in 2021.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gold mining is a global business with operations on every continent, except Antarctica, and gold is extracted from mines of widely varying types and scale. At a country level, China was the largest producer in the world in 2021 and accounted for around 9 per cent of total global production.