Little Phelps asked:
I know that China’s economy is growing fast and that most of the stuff at Walmart is from China. But how does China afford all of the hundreds of new modern skyscrapers being built every year? The country is somehow managing to move hundreds of millions of people to cities. How? That has to be incredibly expensive. Where does it get the money? India can’t do anything like that. Even the United States probably couldn’t do that if it tried. Where does China get the money for this? They can’t be that rich from selling plastic toys and cheap funiture.
Kasey
I know that China’s economy is growing fast and that most of the stuff at Walmart is from China. But how does China afford all of the hundreds of new modern skyscrapers being built every year? The country is somehow managing to move hundreds of millions of people to cities. How? That has to be incredibly expensive. Where does it get the money? India can’t do anything like that. Even the United States probably couldn’t do that if it tried. Where does China get the money for this? They can’t be that rich from selling plastic toys and cheap funiture.
Kasey
it is from selling plastic toys and cheap furniture.
They are selling it to US, Europe, Japan. It’s not just toys, China makes pretty much everything you can buy in Walmart.
Building a tall building is not that expensive, like $10-20M, and they have cheap labor and materials there. And no safety codes like in US.
Moving to city is very cheap, rural people just take the train with a suitcase. It’s not like truck moves you do in US.
Comment by Cthulhu fhtagn! — September 23, 2008 @ 7:00 am
China has relatively cheap labor like no other place. Their money goes a long way with very inexpensive labor. This along with their government’s manually holding the value of the currency low, and everything in China is dirt-cheap. Beware of the big red bear.
Comment by mmcgehee — September 26, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
They make far more than cheap toys. Each area of China is designated for a particular industry or sector–China has managed to obtain the most high-tech factories and goods of anywhere in the world. Shanghai, where there are thousands of skyscrapers, is the center for finance, government and industry in that area of China. Foreign companies were forced to build in specific areas in order to invest and build a customer base in the country. Much of the investment for the Chinese came from ethnic Chinese (rich ones) in Hong Kong and Singapore. They are now suffering through their first business cycle downturn and finding it’s not so easy to dictate supply and demand as they once thought.
Comment by Anna P — September 27, 2008 @ 1:42 am
Is US Starting Racial Hatred against Chinese/Asian Americans
I just read this post: It is much like a post by adult but self-claiming as a school student (it keeps using the word—Miscegenation–not a high school vocabulary) I know many Chinese-Americans. They aren’t nothing like this post:
This is the post and links, below:
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Chinese Nationalism in America and Totalitarian control in Tibet?
I am an american born Chinese. My parents moved here to escape persecution from the communists rule. Now that i am older, in high school now, and am starting to develop a sense of nationality, is it okay? I’ve been starting to become segregative and i do not believe it is wrong. Interracial marriage in the asian american community i believe is forbidden and should be considered invalid and disgusting. Just like the apartheid era in South Africa, the Anti Miscegenation in nazi germany and the anti race mixing laws in colonial America. However i only believe interacial marriage is wrong, everything else is fine. My second question is wondering why Tibet should be freed. I don’t exactly know what its like to be oppressed, but it would hurt me to see China divided. I already don’t like the fact that mongolia isn’t part of china. I am pro military action on Tibet if they Declare independence. Is this an acceptable way of thinking?
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(Yahoo not permits me to link(I wonder why?) But you can search “Chinese Nationalism in America and Totalitarian control in Tibet” to see it is there.)
@This is definitely not a post by Chinese-American. Is US starting racial war on its own ethnic Americans?
I serach it out. But Yahoo would not let me paste it here. But you can do this :
Add Yahoo Answer web address—answers#yahoo#com—(replace # with dot: ” .” ): before the following:
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paste three lines together.
Comment by Sylvia J — September 27, 2008 @ 2:30 am
they save and they work hard.
Comment by Dyana L — September 27, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
Is it because they spend less time in blaming and trashing others ?
Comment by Mr Hex Vision — September 28, 2008 @ 4:23 am