Reflection on China's dilemma between pursuing higher economic growth and escalating pollution due to the industrialization

China's economy is ranked second in the world. However, China still wants to improve its economy and overtake the United States, which currently holds the world best economy. The main reasons for improving China's economy is because China has a big land mass of 3854082 square miles and a huge population of about 1.3 billion people. China's big land mass results in more space to build more factories because of China wanting to pursue high economic growth. These factories will produce more carbon emission which leads to air pollution due to this industrialization. Thus, there is a contradiction between these two because on one hand, China's economy is improving due to having more factories, leading to higher employment rate and eventually higher economic growth but on the other hand, China is putting themselves in danger of pollution from this industrialization which is the factories which are producing lots of carbon dioxide. So as China continue building more factories, China's economy will grow, pursuing the goal of higher economic growth, and at the same time, bring harm to people because of the escalating pollution. I feel that China should not neglect the people's welfare and so, China should reduce the carbon emission rate produced by the factories. China should put the people's welfare in front of its pursue for higher economic growth because there is no use if China has a higher economic growth but nobody to enjoy the riches and wealth because the pollution causes their health to deterioriate. Therefore, I can conclude that China is having a dilemma deciding whether to continue to pursue higher economic growth which might bring more wealth to its people or reduce the escalating pollution which might cause harm to its people. Both choices are beneficial and detrimental to China so China is having a hard time deciding what precautions and measures to take.

-Kah Ghee (15)