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China's prosperity is built on:

  • Industrial foundation during Mao era, with Soviet help, which was the biggest organized industry transfer in history.
  • Reform & opening up, building up the biggest foreign-exchange reserve.
  • The most direct increase in wealth among Chinese families are actually the property value.
  • Housing in its essence is just a wooden or concrete box, its real value exists in the location and services near it (schools, healthcare, transport and job opportunities).
  • These property wealth were all backed by China's massive industries, exports and foreign echange reserves.
  • China's exports, was because of the industrial foundation and social reforms of the Mao era
  • Imports

Storytelling

  • manufacturing sector's share of GDP
  • life expectancy - Amilcar
  • 55 different ehtnic groups and their population growth
  • newly-added green coverage in China accounting for more than 1/4 of the global total in the past decade
  • renewalble power generation
    • photovoltaic installed
    • wind
    • hydroelectric
    • misc
  • total energy production
  • HSR mileage built
  • patent grants

  • Power_generation and Renewalbe Power
    • Power generation percent of coal
  • CO2 emission reduction compared tp 2005
  • High speed rail built and ridership
  • Life Expectancy
  • Poverty reduction

Datasets

  • UN data

update readme

  • inspiration
    • Does our opinion of something change when we apply a materialist analysis of the measureable acpects of it.
    • specifically
  • further reading
  • dialectical materialist discussion using data to chart China's development from a peasant, aggrarian society to a modern
  • cover sheet
  • inspiration - project on environmental change, China would be the perfect country to analyze because of their measurable achievements that contradict some narratives
  • focus intention: looking at graphs of population welbeing indicators, infrastructure, and societal production
  • take away and what did we learn: Exploring the world in data, we can resolve the contradictions in narratives.

Explainers

  • What is extreme poverty?

  • It is living on less than $2 a day (or actually less than $2.15). It means having too little money to meet the basic needs that most of us take for granted, such as food, water, electricity and basic healthcare.

  • The Communist Party of China orchestrated the most profound miracle of our modern times. Why does this miracle matter?

    • The CPC raised hundreds of millions of people out of 'absolute poverty' as defined by the World Bank.
    • If you fail to understand the significance, please consider the reality that hundreds of millions world-wide still live in wretched conditions. It's our, your and my, job to help them too.
    • There are valuable lessons to learn from the CPC's all out campaign to bring every last person in China out of the waiting room of history and into modernity.
    • China's system deserves praise, yes, but it more importantly deserves our study, for the replication of the processes which can be implimented elsewhere.
    • Is the Belt and Road Initiative exporting the eventual end of global poverty? I think so.
    • Only country in history that developed over the last 40 years and became what it with poverty alleviation, growth and wealth for its population without invations ans colonial plunder.
    • What China has been able to do would be a very interesting experience for other developing countries, countries in the Global South to benefit from.
    • Project what they have done in a positive way.
    • Counrty specific studies with acedemics to improve their mutual exchange and people to people contact
    • What will happen with the increasing technological advances creating all kinds of wealth and how that wealth is to be able to benefit the whole world rather than a select few?

  • XI JINPING (2023): "Western modernization was fraught with sanguineous crimes such as war, slave trade, colonization, and plunder, which inflicted untold misery on developing countries. Having suffered from aggression, bullying, and humiliation by Western powers, we Chinese are keenly aware of the value of peace and will never follow the beaten path of the West."

"The biggest problems with Western modernization are that it is capital-centered rather than people-centered and that it seeks to maximize capital gains rather than serve the interests of the vast majority of the people."

trivia section

  • Question 1: How many countries have made cooperation agreements with China's Belt and Road Initiative? around 40, 80, 140 Most people haven't yet recognized the sheer scale of this initiative, which is funding roads, railways and ports in many countries to better integrate them into the global trade of the future. The aim is to connect Europe, Asia and Africa. There are also several Latin American countries that have joined. Although most countries are on board in some way, there has been criticism of the project and China's intentions - particularly in the US - but there is no doubt it is a hugely ambitious infrastructure project.

  • 80% get this wrong

  • Question 2: How many people in China are 65 and older? 12% 26, 40 86% get this wrong

  • Question 3: How many people in China have some access to electricity? 84% get this wrong

  • Question 4 Empty star icon

    How many babies in China were vaccinated against some disease in 2019? 51% get this wrong

  • Question 5 Empty star icon

    70% of Europeans said they were planning to switch to a more environmentally friendly energy provider to fight climate change, in 2020. What was this number in China?

  • China accounts for 36% of world production (the US is around 12%)

  • Real economy:

    • grain output 700M tons is 1.2 times US production
    • power generation of 9.2T kw is 2.3
    • 19 times more steel
    • 20 times more cement
    • ship building produces 70 times more tonnage a year
    • 2nd largest merchant fleet (Greece is #1)
    • Transportation efficiency of rail, airport, and ports.
    • Installed solar power is twice all other countries combined
    • The Wind power generates more power than the next 7 countries combined
    • in 2020 China graduated 3.57M STEM workers / 820k(1/3 foreign born)
    • Dominated the international olymiads in biology, chemistry, physics, math, and informatics.
    • 37 of 44 technologies

  • China patented more new tech than the next 10 countries combined. (link to chart)

  • Share of people who said they trusted their national government in 2023

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 86% 🇨🇳 China: 85% 🇦🇪 UAE: 84% 🇮🇳 India: 76% 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 73% 🇲🇾 Malaysia: 67% 🇹🇭 Thailand: 64% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 55% 🇦🇺 Australia: 50% 🇨🇦 Canada: 49% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 47% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 42% 🇩🇪 Germany: 42% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 42% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 41% 🇺🇸 United States: 40% 🇫🇷 France: 39% 🇪🇸 Spain: 36% 🇯🇵 Japan: 32% 🇨🇴 Colombia: 31% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 30% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 29% 🇦🇷 Argentina: 21%

(2024 Edelman Trust Barometer)

  • data cleaning
  • transforming,
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