The Pros And Cons Of Industrialization In China

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Some people may ask, what is industrialization and why is it so important? It all started in Britain around the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Industrialization is the creating and selling of your countries own good. It is a very complex thing that requires a strong county to be able to withstand everything because industrialization is what makes a country stable and developed. There are both good and bad things that come along with industrialization; the major disadvantages of industrialization would be the social and environmental problems it entails such as, Environmentally, industrialization both pollutes the environment and reduces its resource availability. Socially the quick growth of cities brings …show more content…

It was not until the western industrial revolution that China was overtaken. In the 19th and 20th century, China fell victim to endless attack, stealing of their ideas and unfair trade agreements from the European countries. This hit China hard making it very difficult for them to succeed. Now after half a century of rebuilding itself, China is finally making a comeback. At least, that's how the Chinese are seeing it, and not as a new beginning. For China, it's only natural that they're the richest country in the world since they have for the most part of history been it, and currently have the largest …show more content…

The country was changed from a rural, agricultural economy that was producing coffee, sugar and other products into an urban, industrial powerhouse. Brazil has had a great increase of selling their good to the other countries but even with that not everyone had gotten rich from it. Some of the people are still very poor and unable to make ends meet where the other people are very rich.
At the beginning of the 20th century after the second industrial revolution for the more developed countries, Brazil began to export primary products to Europe and North America. The best export that they had and was actually doing them well in industrializing was still their coffee, sugar and cotton. However, at the turn of the twentieth century, Brazil did lack the structure and wealth to keep an industrial economy. They had less than 3% of their work frce working in the manufacturing industry; the industrial economy in Brazil struggled before World War I.
But today Brazil has grown a ton and has a lot of exports such as Brazil's main exports include soybeans, coffee, tobacco, cocoa, beef, poultry, , raw cane and refined sugar, iron ore and mineral fuels. Brazil has begun to secure businesses and become active in industries in the United States as well. Today, Brazil is the world’s sixth largest economy, surpassing the United Kingdom in

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