Impact Of Globalization In China

Globalization has caused the world to change. Our country, China has been dramatically changed by globalization. Our people have moved to cities, and our industry has exploded. We have had huge advances in technology along with education improvement. Despite the fact that China has changed so much, there are still many issues that plague it. China faces serious environmental concerns. New diseases and viruses that are not indigenous to China can cause a wide range of sickness in the new area. Despite some of the the improvements in China that are a result of globalization, the negatives that globalization has brought to China are more than the benefits.

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China has changed dramatically over the past hundred years. It was once a fractured state, stuck, living in the past. Since then, China has evolved into a politically stable and economically powerful modern nation. Mao Zedong led the Communist party in China. Although many things that Mao did were not good, his efforts helped make China into the nation that it is today.

China is recognized as the oldest civilization in the world. After thousands of years of feudal ruling and numerous dynasties, including the Xia Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, Qin and Tang, the Communist Party founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The creation of the People’s Republic of China led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with them for decades. China located in East Asia and along the west coast of the Pacific, China is approximately 3,700,000 square miles, making it the fourth largest country in the world in size; following close behind the United States and Canada. It has fourteen neighboring countries, more than any other country in the world, except Russia, which also has fourteen. Those countries are:

Globalization is not all bad. It was this process that created jobs around the globe and allowed companies to develop and grow to heights never imagined. It also encourages competitiveness among businesses which lowers costs for consumers. Along with these lower costs there is also a wider range of product choices available. Companies such as Wal-Mart and Target are in a constant pricing war to gain loyal customers. Goods made in the United States as well as overseas are now widely available at the touch of a button with little to no effort. This interchange of goods opens the door for cultures to become more tolerant of one another. Furthermore, other countries are assisted by the creation of new opportunities due to the financial and industrial aspects of globalization.

34 years ago prior to the economic reforms and trade liberalization, China had a different background to today’s economic development. The government supported policies that kept the country centrally controlled, inefficient and relatively isolated to the world economy. Since 1979, there has been a shift in the economic policies and implementation of free market reforms that has led to trade liberalization and foreign investment. As a result, China has been growing at an average GDP rate above 10% over the past 30 years.

China's capitalism and boom was born when their president, Deng Xiaoping permitted the provinces to dismantle their communes and collective farms. This led China to venture into free-market economics, although they were still under the communist political system. When President Deng announced that they needed Western money and expertise, China flung their trade doors wide open and China went on a capitalist drive without ever looking back. By mid 1960's, the Chinese Revolution settled down to the job of ruling China. Its main goal was essentially nationalist: a prosperous modern economy. While there continued to exist substantially economic inequalities, distribution of wealth was probably a bit more equal than in most Western countries.

China has approximately 20% of the world’s population, which is around 1.3 billion people (Morris, 2009, p. 111). Also, China has become one of the worlds biggest manufacturing countries within 30 years (Fawssett, 2009, p. 27). However, such rapid development has come at a cost, which has created various environmental problems. Coincidentally, China has 16 cities on a list of the 20 worst polluted cities in the world (Fawssett, 2009, p. 15). Therefore, this essay will explain the reasons for China’s environmental problems, then evaluate the claim that the Chinese government and people, are tackling these environmental problems. First, crop farming techniques over the last hundred years, and their consequences will be explained. Followed by, how peoples choice in food has changed over the last hundred years, and how this indirectly affects the environment. Then, how a capitalist economy is linked to agriculture, and finally what the Chinese government and people are doing to tackle these problems.

Now, before I bash globalization it is some positive I would like to discuss. Globalization is great for the American economy; we can supply the world with our goods and services, which in turn can possible, relieve the deficit we’re in. “Homegrown industries see trade barriers fall and have access to a much wider international market. The growth this generates allows companies to develop new technologies and produce new products and services.” (Buzzle) Also, globalization leads to better relations between countries when they create trade agreements. Globalization does not drain every under-developed company but brings a new era of economic change and the hope of being a world super power to certain nations. “Economic globalization gives governments of developing nation’s access to foreign lending. These funds are used on infrastructure including roads, health car...

I have mixed opinions about globalization as a whole. I think for the economies of most countries it can be beneficial as it will help develop non-developed countries. Globalization has the potential to make the world a better place to live and solve some very long standing problems like unemployment and poverty, which will have a positive impact in the future. Other than having one world government, which I think would have a negative impact in the future, I think globalization will have a positive impact in the future, if it will increase wealth, decrease poverty and allows cultures to blend without each country losing their own cultures.