Tuesday, January 18, 2005

NYT - Face off China

Here is a great article by New York Time, It is not about old Kyoto protocol or another story about rise of dragon but it tells how the cost of this rise is being paid by rural people and to some extend even by urbanites and how much dragon is ignoring them, From around a year or 2 all I was seeing in news was just Shanghai or Beijing and there high rise buildings or there state of the art Infrastructure or news about there great FDI, etc, Though I knew this is not really the picture but just a tiny part of this massive country, As surely it can't be all rainbow and people are literally surfing and paying cost, even in developed cities like Beijing and Shanghai people are feared to even talk about bad part of dragon.
Though in some points you can really compare this with India when it comes to difference between Urban and Rural India it is really increasing here too, and same applies for pollution and same applies for pollution and health but difference is here people have right to protest and media also helps them sometimes and really make the difference, recently there are such examples came in when media reported and then state govt acted on it.

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