I'm sorry but China is a big F-ing screw up....it looks all great becuase of the ecomonic development to most of the general public here, but its a mess! And messier than many westerners know.
I am born here in Canada, but of chinese ethnicitiy and background, and I am in no way proud of the China we have today.
Examples of why: lack of pollution control (rivers are black with leather tanins-->people get rashes from touching water, smog, etc.), habitat loss, counterfiet everything (not just your LV purses that ppl like..it includes milk powder, antibiotics-things that can kill people), killing babies because they were female (abortion, drowning them, etc.), horrible human rights (people forced homeless to clear land, horrible injuries in factories to produce those cheap items we use-a single life seems disposable to the rich because there are so many of them, etc)....
The list can go on and on. The government cares nothing but to industrialize the country. The chinese people especially the rich and bureaucratic have to stop and think about the crap thats going on to make the country look modern and presentable to the western people. They are too proud of the fact they can compete with westerners now and all they can think of is to build more and clear more land they are neglecting what is really important. Most of the damage done is irreverable!
I wonder how much damage was done to make the 2008 olympics look modern and presentable to us already. I know its gonna be a really big show (A lot of chinese talent and history to display), but you don't get to see the chaos and crap in the background to build that damned stadium and finish incomplete work (like a river dam) to show off to westerners.
Our precious river dolphins, pandas and orchids will go extinct if they don't stop and many lives will be lost. Many of the consequences are irreversable. How on earth will they fix the black lake filled with leather tanins? Everything is dead in there.
There I'm done rambling I don't know if any of my sentences are clear or make sense