Motor vehicle rear collision car accidents in China last week, on the whole was a human tragedy. Many people lost their lives, and the grief stricken survivors days have shocked the country.
In addition to the suffering people, allow the accident also reflects some shortcomings in the distortion of rapid modernization process in China, also people to doubt the sustainability of China's extraordinary growth.
China may have donned the wonderful coat of modern industrial economy, but it has not been developed and the accompanying governance mechanisms. Power--if producers of power, or is the Government's powers--are still not citizens ' rights (free speech) and freedom of Association and so on. With the power of the media can only be achieved with limited liability, and mechanisms of accountability by taking a vote is still do not exist.
This would undermine the Chinese people welfare. Think of Melamine incident and am thinking of the many school buildings collapsed 2008 Sichuan earthquake (many people believe that the roots leads to inferior construction quality of municipal corruption).
Major railway projects seem to have been infected with the same disease. Earlier this year, Minister responsible for the project was arrested for "Registrar" (what a euphemism) and removed from Office, allegedly his large bribes. Foreign officials and industry executives have warned that the design changes on the basis of Chinese foreign and independent high-speed technology formed goes through no more than a designed speed of the train. If misappropriation of large projects in the rail system under construction contractor. talk
Western countries, of course, there are security flaws and corruption, but the Western societies have "error correction" mechanism, the Chinese Government is still reluctant to promote the construction of such mechanisms. High-speed train project is not an isolated effort, but after the financial crisis of the Chinese Government to maintain economic growth and a part of the round go all out and go fast. The accident also that people have doubts about the effectiveness of these investments.
People wonder is, in a poor society promoting the wisdom of the rail system travel too expensive? Built on the station from the wisdom of existing urban sites? Their answer is: for the future, China is currently under construction and, together with economic growth, the new infrastructure will come in handy. The argument now seems even more empty. In the same way as tom is another way to say that China can ignore "economic law of gravitation", making great strides in addition to other countries, is faster than any other country to climb the value chain.
Translator/he Li
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