Reflecting on China's dilemma between pursing higher economic growth and escalating pollution due to the industralization

Personally, I think that china should not sacrifice it's health for wealth. To achieve economic growth, china has been polluting itself, especially the air, due to the factories. The people breathing in the air will be sick more frequently, and china's population growth will decrease. There will also be less workers. By archiving economic growth, it is actually decreasing it. In the future, the air will be so polluted, it will be a challenge to breathe. Try counting money while holding your breath...
By Tan Wen Cong (31)

Reflection — China's dilemma between pursuing higher economic growth and escalating pollution due to industrialization Grace Deng Zheyun(7)

           Since China opened up at 1978, she quickly grow and evolve to how it is today. While China pursues higher economic growth, it comes with an heavy price: escalating pollution. Pollution problems are on the rise. China's air quality is quite worrying. My father told me, that out of the Top Ten Worst Air Quality Cities list, China took up 7 spots among the list! I was really so shocked. It's no wonder that a lot of Chinese are wearing mask now! As the world's largest source of of greenhouse emissions, China is responsible for a third of the planet's greenhouse gas output. According to the World Bank in 2007, 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. This shows that the people living in those 7 cities are going through hazy days everyday. This haze would surely affect their health gradually, and it is even worse for those who have respiratory illnesses.

            (Wearing mask... Has it now become a trend in China...?)

             Although I understand that China have to industrialize in order to catch up with the rest of the world, China could not disregard Chinese' health and China could not disregard how this haze will affect the tourism in China. This is a sure dilemma but I feel that China should slow down their pace of industrialization as China is now the world's leading economic. From my point of view, China is sacrificing its people's health just for it's own economical growth. It is also contributing to the global warming by releasing the large amount of pollution into the air. It's people's health should have been their top priority, even if they continued pursuing higher economical growth, yet if their people are all sick or dead, there would still be a continuous downwards trend of its economical growth as the fumes of smoke would repulse tourism and due to the population decreasing at a higher rate, there would be lesser workers able to work, thus, the quality and quantity of things produced in China would decrease. Causing the economy of the country to go down. Moving forward is a must, but at the same time, China should slow down or maybe even choose to invest in researching for ways to reduce pollution, like in Germany, more and more people drive in the hybrid cars which requires hydrogen, solar or wind power. It does not need to burn fuels to move. This way, China reduces the emission of greenhouse gases which will go to the atmosphere and have enhanced greenhouse gas, which leads to global warming. China can continue or even increase the pace of industrialization, so long as the problem of escalating pollution can be solved.

                  (Requires hydrogen, or solar or wind and many more..)

               In conclusion,with China's increasing economic growth, there will be escalating pollution created by this speed and rate of industrialization. Thus I feel that the Chinese government should have in mind the welfare of the public first and weigh the pros and cons of economic development versus the health concern of public. It is important to strike a balance between these two as both are closely related. I know it is not easy to decide, but we should at least try as something lost can never be retrieved. 

Reflecting on China's dilemma between pursing higher economic growth and escalating pollution due to the industralization

I think that China should not continue to rapidly strive for higher economic growth as the rate of pollution would affect the population and in the long run, the people living near the factories might develop medical conditions due to breathing in polluted air for so long. Even though pursuing economic growth is important, the citizen's health is more important in my opinion. Instead, the country can adopt using energy by not polluting the air by using solar energy or wind farms.  This way, they can still have a high economic growth and at the same time not pollute the air.

By Evelyn Ang (2)

What possible effects does the One Child Policy have on the Chinese society?

Many of us know that China has a One Child Policy, but what exactly are the effects does it have on the Chinese public? Let's find out.

1) First, most of the children in China misuse the term 'brother' and 'sister'. Being an only child and with friends being the same, these children are unable to grasp the real meaning of a generic 'sibling'. Most of the children, if you ask them if they have any siblings. They will respond 'Yes I do, many siblings.' But if you ask them who are they, the children will reply 'My aunt's/uncle's children."

2)The children won't experience caring and sharing for someone, that is, their sibling. Showered with undivided love from their parents, the children won't be able to experience what is like when attention from them is being snatched away when the younger sibling is born.

3) The generation of children now are more educated than the previous few generations. Now that the family have only one child's education to invest in, many families are capable of paying for the children's education and extra things to help with the children's learning such as revision books and tuition.

4) the children feel compelled to stay with their parents. Although many of them have big dreams and wishes to travel to other countries to work, they felt that if they leave their parents, no one will be taking care of them and thus, they choose to stay with them, limiting their career experiences.

So is the One Policy a good thing or a bad thing? I can't say whether is it good or bad, but I'm just happy that Singapore does not have this policy.

What is hot or cool to the youths in China/Singapore?

Hot

1) weibo

2) QQ (my parents have it... And I guess ALL the people, no only the youths, has it)

3) Happy Farm 快乐农场 (this is the game most youths play... My cousin also has it)

4) Wearing pyjamus on street trend (there was a newspaper report about it, saying that many Chinese wore pyjamus as it is comfortable)

5) 泪奔 -- that small little cat crying image-- using to do this expression 😭

Cold

1) youtube (the Chinese is banned from using it... So sad...)

2) Facebook( I don't usually see them using)

Hot

1) Anime!! (A lot of Singaporeans youths LOVES animes... There are a handful in our class too... There are some like 'Koroko No Basket' or what, talking about basketball. My favourite is 'Detective Conan'!!)

2) K-pop (such as Bing Bang, Exo, Girls' Generation... My friend listens to these songs EVERYDAY)

3) Running Man! (Likes Ji-Hyo --sorry if I spelt wrongly)

4)Singapore 'unique' third-language, Singlish 

   British way: Excuse me, could you please make way.

   Singaporean way: Siam lah!!

5) Hawker centre

6) social medias like Facebook, youtube, Instagram, Twitter....

Cold

1) Real propre British English (practically no one speaks that, unless his/ her family have some relations with the continent, Europe)

2) traditional jobs (many of them are vanishing in Singapore. Many youths don't do these'old' jobs like cobbler and streets barber since we have a high-tech way.)

Andrew Bae Jong Seong - Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces.Furthermore, the defensive characteristics of the Great Wall were enhanced by the construction of watch towers, troop barracks, garrison stations, signaling capabilities through the means of smoke or fire, and the fact that the path of the Great Wall also served as a transportation corridor. Although it caused many deaths, the Great Wall of China was still strongly built and it is also served as a historical structure in China. I still cannot believe that it is built by human beings, I learned that no matter how hard the task is, if we can unite as one, motivate each other, the task could be done.

EVELYN ANG (2) 2J 兵马俑

The Terracotta Army or the "Terracotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures of the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC. It is believed to protect the emperor in his afterlife.

        (Erm.. Not really handsome...)

The figures, dating from around the late third century BC, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses. Current estimates are that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried in the pits near by Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum. I felt that it is quite honorable, since a king has so many people to 'protect' him even in the afterlife, and quite amazed by the olden Chinese's way of thinking... Hmm. Quite unique...

                    (It feels so majestic! OMG!)