China And Pollution

China is one of the world's first countries to become more developed than

any other country in Asia during the 20th Century. China used to be a very poor country

with communism leading most of their lives for survival. Most people in China were

peasants and their only way to survive was to follow the commands of Mao Zedong and

his thinking of creating "Utopia" for China. Mao however failed his people miserably and

left his country scrambling for food and money.

Since 1980's however China's Reform Era came when China started

modernizing in agriculture, industry, technology and national defense. Throughout the

1980's Chinese farmers fertilized the land to make it possible to grow a lot of crops since

the population started rapidly growing. Chinese started to build factories for production

of plastic and rubber since it was a natural resource for them. Science and Technology

also had a big impact on china just recently China sent its first space shuttle into space

to show the world that they're developing better than expected.

China also started training their army and started to mess around with all kinds of

high tech gadgets to protect its country and build up national defense

All this modernization had a big impact on China's economy since they started

Trading the goods they mass produced to foreign countries all around the world and that

led one of the poorest countries to become wealthy rich in resources and had a big

impact on today's economy of China!

Some of the benefits of China's development are technology and its impact

on the world and mass producing all kinds of goods like plastic toys or electronics for

trade. China's ability to specialize in a lot of products whether man made or from natural

resources led the country's economy to rise from nothing to one of the most developed

countries in this world.

Since 1980 China has developed and advanced in technology. At

first China started making cameras, televisions, and camcorders

Another Chinese breakthrough came when the Chinese started to

build a lot of factories to mass produce toys, sneakers and all kinds of small household

cheap goods like lighters and export them all around the world. China has become one of

the biggest trading countries in the last 20 years! Nowadays almost anything you buy in

the store whether its clothes or electronics they were mostly produced in China. Chinese

people became much smarter and more advanced than any other country in Asia.

They contributed much more in technological advances than the U.S. in fact most of the

gadgets that are being developed as concepts in the U.S market like cell phones and mp3

players are being developed and tested by the Chinese first before it hits the U.S. market.

These are just some of the many benefits that China contributed to the world.

Even though China has a lot of Benefits from Trading and mass producing

There are also a lot of hazards associated with China's way of doing business.

After reading Global Issues Protect Workers Rights by Bruce Raynor I can

Conclude that the workers in the factories are being paid much less than the minimum

wage and that they are forced to work in filthy and hazardous to health conditions which

aren't safe to work at all! Besides getting paid pennies and endangering their health they

are also polluting their whole country and surrounding other countries close by with

pollution. Toxic Fumes and other waste that comes out from the factories cloud up the

whole sky with poison that spreads throughout the country and make the whole day look

like night since there are so many factories and all of them contribute to pollution.

China has the biggest population in the world with more than

1,320,000,000 people and all of them have to breathe in the toxic chemicals that are in

the air everyday but it doesn't end there. PBS made a video called Voices of Concern

where they explained how Chinese pollution also affects us Americans. On the sea coast

of California seals and other water animals were found dead or dying but no one knew

where it came from but the research team later learned that the