Chinese 303 Advanced Chinese 三年中文 春季班
Greater China:   Commerce and The Media

Spring 2004

Sample Essay
學生：芮尚勤Reed Riggs

題目：国经济发展是不是可持续?

中国经济发展是不是可持续的? 城市居民常告诉农民农村工业发展太脏的. 虽然市民跟自己作的空气污染和余的包装无太空批评在农村的工业,工业外溢的冲击都很大. 比方说养子川越来越干燥是因为农民消减很多树. 农民没有够钱买现代化的资本, 所以买比较便宜的落后的设备. 比较老的机器除了危险以外,也很不效益. 很多输入被浪费了,成为工业耗费. 低发展的农民在只看在短期上的发展呢.

在长期上,污染的工业供养很难生活的状况. 空气很难吸也不可能喝自来水. 但是这个问题可能任凭解决了. 纵然住在舒适的房子也拥有私人汽车的利益比有污染的环境的代价大,在世界的比赛中间落后的设备不能比赛. 中国的工业早晚被改变了.

Is China’s economic development sustainable or not? City residents often tell people in the countryside that their industrial development is too dirty. Although those living in the city—with their own air pollution and over-packaging—have no room to criticize countryside industry, industrial spillover does leave a very large impression. The Yangtze River, for example, is drying up because people in the countryside are cutting down a lot of its trees. Peasants do not have enough money to purchase modern capital, so they buy relatively cheap, backward equipment. Older machinery, aside from being dangerous, is also very inefficient. Many inputs are wasted, being lost to industrial waste. People of the underdeveloped countryside are only looking at their development in the short run.

In the long run, polluting industries provide for difficult living conditions. Polluted air is very hard to breath, and the tap water is undrinkable. But this question could be solved no matter what. Even if the benefits of living in a comfortable house and driving a private car outweigh the costs of dirty air, in world competition backward machinery cannot compete. Sooner or later, Chinese industry will have to be updated.