A Simple Solution to a Worldwide Crisis

[jpdm]

There will always be "provincial" places anywhere you go. Even in the western areas like Europe and USA, there are under developed places. I don't see it as good or bad.

But the thing with China, those "key cities" shows a rapid development from where they were 10 or 15 years ago. There is a "minor" city called YIWU that I visited this year. It got it's own new airport that opened early this year. That airport is more modern than our NAIA Terminal 2 and it's only meant to handle domestic flights.

There is another city (Xiamen) that I first visited 15 years ago. It had a few narrow concrete roads and other places had narrow asphalt or clay roads. The buildings were old traditional structures. This year, during a day's stopover visit, the city is more modern than Metro Manila. It has 4 to 8 lane roads through the city center with light traffic. It has a system of elevated roads for dedicated buses that run like our M.R.T. (and it costs less than our MRT to setup & operate too). It even has a SM Mall.

Agree here.

And China should be emulated because they were able to bring hundreds of millions of their people (han, hun, tibetan and other ethnic groups in China etc.)out of poverty in just a few decades and still counting. That's a big accomplishment for a very huge country (pop. largest in the world at 1.3 billion (official). 3rd largest country in the world in terms of land area. (Russia 1st and Canada 2nd) ) always underestimated by the West.

Now, unofficially, its the 2nd largest economy after the US...

It was a slow process for an ancient "primitive" kingdom (rocked by socio-eco-political upheaval) into a galloping modern and industrial state.

Thats development. Slowly but surely. Always with optimism. This great nation always see op****ity in every crisis. No wonder China has the distinction of having the longest running continuous civilization in the world.