zhaoyun
08-20-2015, 12:14 AM
Good article here touching on what makes China completely different from other "Developing Countries".
I've touched on this issue many times. China is only less developed due to historical circumstances and not due to cultural or social reasons like many other developing countries. A century of political chaos, foreign invasions, followed by three decades of insane Communist disasters led to China becoming an impoverished nation.
Obviously, when these circumstances changed in 1978, when Deng Xiaoping ushered in an era of capitalist reforms combined with political stability, China has boomed and it's society has transformed in ways that no country has experienced before. Today, China is clearly not a third world country, though not first world yet, but clearly is somewhere in between as large swathes of the country is now developed, yet due to it's vast size, much of it is still developed.
But China is clearly different from other "Developing countries", because the MINDSET of the people was never that of a culturally impoverished society. China, despite all of it's diversity, is strongly unified under the cultural framework of the Han Chinese culture, one of the world's greatest civilizations with a strong emphasis on the cultural values of hard work, entrepreneurship, and value of education. Combined with that is China's long history as a single governed entity and the existence of an EFFECTIVE and COMPETENT government that has by and large, been able to effect massive and complex changes, building a huge infrastructure comparable to the best in "Developed Countries" in a fraction of the time, and on a scale NEVER witnessed in history.
In effect, China was only "developing" due to circumstances, and clearly, despite any economic headaches it may encounter in the near future due to real estate or stock bubbles, it's trajectory is clear, China will clearly count as among the world's advanced and wealthy nations in the next several decades.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/27/can-china-stand-on-its-own/a-history-of-competence-sets-china-apart
I've touched on this issue many times. China is only less developed due to historical circumstances and not due to cultural or social reasons like many other developing countries. A century of political chaos, foreign invasions, followed by three decades of insane Communist disasters led to China becoming an impoverished nation.
Obviously, when these circumstances changed in 1978, when Deng Xiaoping ushered in an era of capitalist reforms combined with political stability, China has boomed and it's society has transformed in ways that no country has experienced before. Today, China is clearly not a third world country, though not first world yet, but clearly is somewhere in between as large swathes of the country is now developed, yet due to it's vast size, much of it is still developed.
But China is clearly different from other "Developing countries", because the MINDSET of the people was never that of a culturally impoverished society. China, despite all of it's diversity, is strongly unified under the cultural framework of the Han Chinese culture, one of the world's greatest civilizations with a strong emphasis on the cultural values of hard work, entrepreneurship, and value of education. Combined with that is China's long history as a single governed entity and the existence of an EFFECTIVE and COMPETENT government that has by and large, been able to effect massive and complex changes, building a huge infrastructure comparable to the best in "Developed Countries" in a fraction of the time, and on a scale NEVER witnessed in history.
In effect, China was only "developing" due to circumstances, and clearly, despite any economic headaches it may encounter in the near future due to real estate or stock bubbles, it's trajectory is clear, China will clearly count as among the world's advanced and wealthy nations in the next several decades.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/27/can-china-stand-on-its-own/a-history-of-competence-sets-china-apart