Deng Xiaoping: A High Cost Of Industrialization In China

Economic growth and industrialization usually comes at a large cost, namely in the form of pollution. China has recently been feeling that cost after decades of growth with little restrictions. Because of this, China has become the world's largest polluter and surpassed the United States in CO2 emissions in 2007. Thus far China has only started to implement regulations due to the outrage of the people and many are not followed. China’s environment shall definitely turn farther from green and decline as government regulations are ignored. Under Deng Xiaoping, China’s industry began to flourish. They became the world's manufacturer of just about everything imaginable and thirty years later they have become the largest manufacturer in the world. This allowed them to make up for the time they lost in industrialization that came to the west decades before. Their economy grew at an astounding rate of around ten percent each year which was unheard of. Unfortunately, during this time, they substituted their environment for fast economic growth and power. They are now dealing with the worst pollution problem in human history and its not getting any better. Within China resides seven of the top ten worst polluted cities in the world and none of them are getting any cleaner. Recently, parts of Beijing

China is trying to become more reliant on nuclear power and other renewable sources and recently invested 90 billion in renewable energy. They hope to be 59% reliant on coal by the decade's end which would be down 7% from now. Their government has ordered fifteen thousand factories to now report on pollution and water discharge figures. They also pledged 608 billion dollars over the next five years to help clean up the air and water within China and they will soon overtake the US in wind energy. However, they are not expected to hit their CO2 emissions until 2030 and it will take decades to clean