Some editor of a Magazine compared the unique features of India and China. Just answer these following questions. Who invented gun powder? Who invented paper? Etc….. and the answer would be China. See these questions now. Who invented zero? Who invented geometry ? and the answer would be India. So that’s the logical reason that the author gives to say why China is leading the manufacturing sector as they were always good at it and why India is leading the software sector as they were also good at it.
Ok. Now China is heading North in its manufacturing capabilities. But at what cost? Its at the expense of its environment. The most serious problem that’s facing China today is its severe air pollution and inadequate water supply, rising of volumes of waste and land consumption. Not only this, the country also faces some traditional environmental problems that has been prevalent for centuries like drought, flooding, desertification and erosion. When it comes to matters of money, the cost of environmental pollution is around 8 – 12 % of China’s GDP. Also China stands as the second biggest petroleum importer.
The most serious problem in China today is its air pollution. Metro cities permanently suffer from smog. Of the 20 cities featuring worst quality of air in the whole world, you wouldn’t believe but 16 are in China alone. The loss in Agriculture is estimated around 20bn USD because of acid rain. Not only the water from the rivers are contaminated ( around 75%) but also the ground water levels suffer from serious contamination and its witnessing steady drop in its ground water table.
Coal-mine related fires are very common in china and the loss of lives last year due to this is roughly around 6000 and even this is on an increase every year.
China at this rate would be curtailing its growth potential in the future years if it does not take measures to restore its already lost natural resources in a big way. If “India Shining” was for us then I think we should say “China Breathing” for them.
2 comments:
Yet another China & India comparision without real facts!
I agree Indians have themost gloriest past and ofcourse we invented zero........
Pollution and other things are part of the developing economy. What are the real indicators are these;
Fermale LITERACY
China - 86.5% (2002)
India - 48.3% (2003 est.)
Exports
$752.2 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
$76.23 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Yes India is good in tech sector... But China's manufacturing is too good and they have provided the best infrastucture for their people. Zero in the past is not enough future is important especially literacy, poverty, hunger, HIV... and all these are real problems in India
Jai Hind
its so very true that china is in a good amount of problems related to environment... water and air pollution being the main ones... also, availability of water is a big issue... from what i read on a news article, half of china's cities face water shortages with northern china having severe problems!
and the other problems that are in india do exists there: social disparity but on a lower scale...
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