The Dark Side of China’s Industrial Boom

They need help seriously... One day those pollutions will effect the sea and entire world... Would you help them before it too late?

This can happen during rapid industrialization...

These stories sound so familiar...

some pictures look a lot like america and europe during the "industrial revolution"... we had to fight for change i'm sure it'll change eventually... not with the powers that be though...

From the humeans yes becouse no one will survive . Death to all humans .

Nuke it, and the whole planet might blow up with all that chemical pollution...

Hey Hey i doubt so... from my calculation... the radiation from a micro nuke is sufficient to vapourse a house.... but nuking those pollution... guess the ozone would have another big hole LOL!!!

Nuking that place may just make all those pollutant liquids fly high into the sky and fall as rain. It kinda makes it worse, I'd say.

need a shit ton of cat litter...

Fine then, if you think you can run your entire life without a single China made product, then you should throw out everything that is made in China. That includes many parts from the PC you're currently using, all food that includes ingredients including seasoning from China, and all possessions you own made with raw materials from China.

It's easy for you to call someone else a dumbass when you're afraid of admitting that everyone is to blame for this situation. It's already obvious to everyone China has a part to blame in this also, but you're deflecting all the blame specifically to China for everything, when it involves everyone. That is a completely ignorant way of thinking. Foreign companies want to take advantage of the low pay rates in China, and obviously they have taken advantage of it. Who benefits from this situation? We do.

If you can't make a single intelligent comment without thinking first, then you can go ahead and call people names but it's obvious you've already done that. So I wish to congratulate you for making your most intelligent single thought of the year.

china saw a demand, they had cheap labor, they went for it, i hate made in china and i try not to go for it

but you guys did it to yourselves, the reason why china dosent go for quality, is because they have none, they cant compete in quality markets, so they go for quantity and price

What the fuck do you mean we do we might benefit in cost but their is a great loss with all these factories being shipped to china if you wanna blame someone blame the companies that have factories in china if their were no factories their would be no pollution and lower costs wouldn't even be on the minds of people.

"If you can't make a single intelligent comment without thinking first"

The person who posted that forgot to consider that this situation isn't caused by Chinese industry exactly, it is caused by their love affair with dirty fuels. They can stop poisoning their land so much, and still be cheap source of imports. Develop and perfect clean energy solution, and learn to make it inexpensively. Then they can continue to produce things less expensively, continue to export, stop poisoning their people, and become a leader (and exporter) of said technology.

You're in a forest and you really need to shit. The nearest toilet is miles away. Don't fucking tell me that you wouldn't you make use of the bush to your left. If you think developing a cheap,clean energy solutions is that simple;how about you go invent one smart ass?

But that example sucks! Taking a few dumps in the forest is good for it. Dung = fertilizer.

The extreme pollution is also due to the lack of regulation by the government. I believe there are barely any laws and regulations.

Actually the most things aren't made in china anymore, special products with the fair-trade certificate.

most parts are assambled in China... not really made in China... food however is made in Countries such as Singapore, Japan, USA, USR, EU and some other parts of the world but not much in China... unless ur getting junk food lolx

This in a global equivalent trade -__-

There are laws, but not proper regulation.
Plus China is a country of corruption. Regulation means nothing if some companies can give some officials some kickbacks to stay their hand or whatever.
I'm sure we can't "live" without china made products that break down easily and whatnot but that's not the point.
The point is that it's not our fault company ABC decides to dump their industrial waste into the rivers.
It's not our fault company XYZ decides to dump their industrial in the neighbouring villages.
Lastly it's not our fault the government isn't doing anything about it(of course, this is a government that deemed it alright to let some babies die due to the whole melamine fiasco, and these are the same companies that decided it was a good idea to be silent about one of their factory failures that caused a leak of waste that went into the rivers that provided the water supply for their own China and some other parts of the continent.)

The same shit's been done by American companies before back in the day, and it's the same thing worldwide. Difference here being that they are regulated and laws are enforced, for example the EU are very strict on using green industrial methods and are promoting green advances wherever feasible.
Those American companies are now paying for long term effects caused by their practices years ago, and I don't see China enforcing this anytime soon, mostly because it's a problem with how they think.

Are you chinese?
i think everybody and every country has problems.. Fucking passing the blame between countries or ppl is bullshit. Who's fault is it? How are you guys coming up with where the fault lies? Everyone played a part.
This is just my opinion but I think that the US and other countries had a part in the pollution of china due to their exploitation of the market, but china made their own regulations based on their own values to create the market right?

wow... fyi china has depeg their currency to the USD since 2007, you might want to get your facts straight before you type.

woops i ment 2005

^perfect summary right there.
A more exaggerate analogy I would have said is this:
If you were to call me shit, and I shoot you in the head, that is partially your fault. Reasonable argument? fuck no.

So who committed the act of murder? Me. Who is polluting the land? China. Therefore what the fuck is with the dumb asses providing defense for China?

If a manufacturer was using slaves to make toys, and then the demand for the toys increased, is it the public's fault for the manufacturer using slaves?
Amazing amount of dumb fucks here...

I can't read the language and it doesn't give me a link directly to the photographs.

you guys are being ignorant and naive

To say you can find filth in any country is really overgeneralizing. That's like saying I can find oxygen or water in every country.

The point being made here is the filth seen here is extra-ordinarily bad, as are the consequences.

Anon 07;26 got a point. News and other media always used to over-exaggerates beauty in a country but almost never it's ugliness. And for propaganda if there's a war in that country and never it's peaceful sides of war.

While Sancon and Artefact only post truth.

"That's like saying I can find oxygen or water in every country"

Well, is it not true?

The idea that China is filled with lush forests is kind of abscure, though; since romance of three kingdoms time, much of the "beautiful" environment is still along the coastal border. Inland China has always been filled with wasteland.

"rather that they only see fit to report on the bad stuff for the mostpart."

That's the point of news, to tell people what they don't know, sensational or not. You make it sound like it's bad to know that a good part of China is pretty fucked up.

I do admit that China may have an over industrialising issue resulting in high pollution and such, my china friends say it all the time so its true.

But that is only one side of the picture. Its pretty much as bad in any developing country, at least China has the results and power to soon become a developed country, where more focus can be placed to resolve these scars of industrialisation.

On another part, doesn't anyone find it annoying that Sankaku complex is always picking on problems in China? Loving anime and manga is one thing, but to the stage of worshipping anything Japanese including even belitting their enemies is kinda ...dim

While yes, you can find shit in every country, China is probably gonna top most places. And really, when do you see media reporting on all sides of an argument, and would you really care about China articles which didnt focus on the fail aspect?

In my country, we don't have oxygen or water, but helium and Dr Pepper.

Those pictures are quoted from a famous Chinese web site, so is there any evidence that Sankaku know it, you know it, but we don't know it?

Come to think about it, how can we not know about this? Even the close circle TV reports this sometimes... But in most of the case, they are too far away from our home, so we don't care that much, and truly, only a few places has became such a hell, there're still many beautiful forest and clean rivers.

@ 10:38

You're crying in the wrong place, this is a website about mainly all Japanese, anime and videogames but even so stop the bullshit because you can see sancom giving bad news about Japan and any other places too, it's only when it's something related to you that you start jumping at it and wailing "discrimination!".

China is a big place.

@ 11:54

If this is a website about Japan, then how come theres all this stuff about China in the first place?

In fact, there's only ever bad news on this website about other countries.
Yes bad news exist on this site too, but that makes sense as this website is meant to be about Japan.

At the top of the page in the categories list, the categories are Anime, Manga, Games, H, Japan.

Then why all the China/Korea bashing?

obviously because it's not meant to be all about japan

>obviously because it's not meant to be all about japan
Please tell me that was sarcasm.

Yes, I can't stand all the China hatred as well; to be honest I can't stand a LOT about this site, but the good outweighs the bad.

Anon 10:38

"But that is only one side of the picture. Its pretty much as bad in any developing country, at least China has the results and power to soon become a developed country, where more focus can be placed to resolve these scars of industrialisation."

so what good is to become a developed country whit all your people sick? do you really think wen you get to the goal of being an developed country the land will be able to take anything else?

Well, just like London, its atmosphere was once been polluted heavily because of the development of industry, but it looks much better now. Why can't China go the same way? Pollute it first, pure it later.

But there are thing which could never be fixed.

@13:24

You can't read shit, can you? I said MAINLY about Japanese stuff, not the only thing, moron.

>In fact, there's only ever bad news on this website about other countries.
Then why all the China/Korea bashing?

So what if China/Korea news are bad ones? It's obvious they're gonna post mostly the bad stuff since it's what gives you the most hits, so stop being a fucking baby. If you hate it so much GTFO, nobody is forcing you to visit the site.

That's not true. If you've paid any attention to previous posts here on Sankaku about landfills, some local populations were able to get a voice and stop/improve their poor conditions.

The problem with China is corruption at the city and town level. Most local politicians are more concerned about lining their pockets with money than the welfare of the people they are trusted to take care of.

People in America can do something about it? Why can't it be people in China can do something about it? America can't take care of every goddamn thing in the world you know. They should try to take a little responsibility for themselves. Its there fuckin country.

*facepalm*

Admittedly 7:36 didn't make it clear, but still regarding the context: reading comprehension fail. They meant within their own country. That is, Americans can do something about the American pollution, but it's near impossible for the Chinese and theirs, because of their government. Summarized for clarity.

Anyways, I saw the opening pics first, and was like "So, new American FPS come out? Dang, more brown graphics... oh wait, China." Some of these seriously look like they could be from GoW or something.

The corrupted official is obviously at fault because they will never take care of the locals. That is why even though usa pay tax, we can control we is going on inside the government. Down with communism.

I second this. Down with Communism.

hey hey everything it's ups and downs just like communism

I'm surprised this is so surprising to some people. Did any of you follow the Beijing Olympics? They built up concrete walls in front of lower income neighborhoods so foreigners couldn't see the people living there. With people in their major cities being treated like that, how do you think people are treated in the industrial wasteland?

Out of Sight, out of mind.

Industrial revolutions were the same everywhere.

thank god for them idiots