It was a Facebook status message of my friend on an Independence eve, which got him some 40 comments and 25 likes. !!
I read through the list and found that most of the comments are kinda same and repeating.
Politician’s sucks, bloody corruption, poor infrastructure blablabla…everything seemed so true, still the patriotic in me was feeling little uneasy. I wondered, weather China is not having all those problems and I did a Google on the secrets of China's super fast development.
These are some things that I caught my attention.
The three major reforms that made China into the GDP top lists are
1. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", which means, if you are earning more than you want to live, that will be credited to the government.
Mao Zedong tried in 1958 to push China's economy to new heights. Under his highly touted "Great Leap Forward", agricultural collectives were reorganized into enormous communes where men and women were assigned in military fashion to specific tasks. Peasants were told to stop relying on the family, and instead adopted a system of communal kitchens, mess halls, and nurseries. Wages were calculated along the communist principle of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need",
2. They ruled like dictators. Common man had to follow orders without protesting. In this reform about twenty thousand scholars were killed and thousands of them have been tortured.
Then, in 1966, Mao reasserted his power and again launched a scheme that nearly brought China to its knees. Worried lest Deng and other bureaucrats pull China too far from the spirit of its socialist revolution, Mao proclaimed a Cultural Revolution to "put China back on track". Under orders to "Destroy the Four Olds" (old thoughts, culture, customs and habits), universities and schools closed their doors, and students, who became Mao's "Red Guards", were sent throughout the country to make revolution, beating and torturing anyone whose rank or political thinking offended. Intellectuals were cursed as the "stinking ninth class", and any sign of "capitalism", such as wearing a necktie, was enough to condemn someone as a foe of the Communist Party. Deng himself was purged as a "capitalist roader" and sent to work in a tractor factory.
3. Little bit same as the first point. Peoples are forced to work for more than 12 hours a day and even on weekends, there earning is used for the welfare of the total country. That means, if you work for 84 hours a week, then also you will only get enough money to spend on your own. So will that be acceptable for you.
China's SOEs were typical of large industrial firms in a centrally planned economy. Inefficient, overstaffed, and with outdated technology, they functioned not only as industrial units but also as social agencies, providing housing, daycare, education, and health care for the workers and their families. The largest enterprises included hundreds of thousands of employees, only a small proportion of who were directly engaged in production.
The update of this system was that Chinese workers could expect both lifetime employment and an extensive, firm-based welfare system-the so-called "iron rice bowl". All welfare entitlements in this system were accounted for as costs of production and were deducted from revenues before the calculation of the profits that were to be remitted to the state. There was no national social security system because none was needed.
It was a stunner. They went through a hell lot of hardships to get into the list of powerful nations. Omg!! WTF!!
I googled more and got some more stuffs.
For Olympics 20000 young men’s were forcibly made to work on the construction of the stadiums and other structures. Among them 1000’s died of exhaustion and diseases. No media were allowed to report on this matter. Not only for Olympics, had such things happened in every major construction. (Hope you already heard about there media privileges?).
Today they are very rich and healthy, but they had a very torturing yesterday. Will we accept any of this above given reforms? No way
The one, who posted that status, even in his worst dreams won’t be ready to be into all those hardships just to say that, my county is developed. I bet!!
So please, sing songs on the victory of China but please stop comparing India with others and ranting about it. I love being an Indian, are you?
:)
Happy Independence Day
