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• Preface
• If
• My First Meeting with English
• Bringing Up
• Becoming a Writer
• What I Have Become
• Free Trade Treaty: Beneficial or Destructive?
• The Man in a Box
• Copyright Laws and the First Amendment
• Steroids in Baseball
• How to Prepare for a Successful Job Interview
• Religion Belongs in the School Curriculum
• Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
• A Note to my Teacher
• Ideas and Imagination Flying Through Reading and Writing
• China as the Next Shining Nation
• How to Make a New Friend
• March of the Penguins
• Raising Children Yesterday and Today
• Almost a Woman
• The Power of Aids
• Credits

China as the Next Shining Nation

Nitza Gallardo
Puerto Rico
ESL 305

China is trying to shine like a golden star around the world with their current economic growth. It is interesting to know that this nation is growing in every single aspect, which really helps this country to achieve the level of a world superpower. The only distinction is that China does not have a democratic type of government which can help it achieve the real category of a World Superpower. In comparison with the United States, which is a superpower because of its government, military forces and economic polices, China can be considered as a World Superpower. China is experiencing many opportunities to become a Superpower Nation using their globalization to move one step ahead to this goal in comparison to other underdeveloped nations (Gang). Preserving stability in their economic aspect, China is facing competition and beating it (Gang). China is emerging fast as a global economic superpower because of their trade, marketing and industry.

China can be considered an ideal state because of its trade in oil and steel. The United States supplies China oil, when in return China supplies United States with steel. Brown states that China's industrialization has increased so much that it doubled that of the U.S. production in 2003: almost 260 to a little more than 100 million tons.

As China’s population increases, this country keeps a continual focus on development, building abundant factories, apartment and office buildings with the ultimate technology and structure. Therefore, this developing period has caused steel consumption standards to rise to levels not seen in any other country. The research done by Brown shows that China, a country of 1.3 billion people, has surpassed the United States, which has a population of 300 million people, with respect to use of steel. He also remarked that in 2004, the oil consumed in the United States was still solidly leading with consumption triple to that of China, 20.4 million barrels per day to 6.5 million barrels. But while oil use in United States expanded by only 15 percent from 1994 to 2004, use in the new industrial giant was more than double that (Brown).

In addition, one characteristic that has improved Chinese economic expansion as a nation is their marketing. China promotes a variety of products and sales of merchandise to fulfill global needs. According to Harding, one of the benefits of China's marketing is its commercial interaction with other nations by reducing political tensions and by liberalizing foreign economic polices. The United States is the top market for Chinese goods (Salvin, Jackson and MacLeod) with the production and distribution of electronic merchandise and household devices. As a result of this, China has moved to the top of world economics with earnings in marketing transactions with nations like the United States.

China's textile industry also shows it's becoming a world leader. According to Brown, China imports tremendous amounts of materials ranging from metals to petroleum products to a variety of other raw materials, fueling the production of a large range of items for export to other countries. This is obvious: Just look around your house and see that 90 percent of the items for ordinary use have a label on it, “Made in China”.

China is a country that not only has local production, but also produces supplies for the entire global market, industry and trade, and has a solid historical continuity that is craving to move fast in the economic globalization. Chinese attitudes and talents toward economic aspects certainly help it to move faster and show that they are a superpower nation, although at first sight China has to analyze their aspiration in sort to become the Superpower nation. Lester R. Brown said, “China is no longer just a developing country; it is an emerging economic superpower, one that is writing economic history. If the last century was the American century, this one looks to be the Chinese century”. These words by Lester R. Brown summarize perfectly the current global economic situation in China and foretell a new gateway to the success of this unique nation.

References

Brown, L. R. (16 Feb. 2005). China replacing the United States as world's leading consumer. Retrieved 30 Sept. 2006 from http://earthpolicy.org/updates/update45_printable.htm.

Gang, F. (1 Sept. 2002). China news and report. Retrieved 30 Sept. 2006 from http://china.org.cn.boadao/english/newsandreport/2002sep1/18-1.htm.

Hannah, R. L. (8 Dec. 1998). Virtual China satellite program: Notes & resources. Retrieved 30 Sept. 2006 from http://mtsu.edu/~rlhannah/virtual_china.htm.

Harding, H. (16 Sept 1997). China as the next superpower. Retrieved 30 Sept 2006 from http://www.national-economists.org/summary2.htm.

Merriam Webster Dictionary Website. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.

Slavin, B., Jackson, D., & MacLeod, C. (19 Apr. 2006). China, partner or adversary, comes calling. USA Today. Retrieved 13 Sept 2006 via EBSCOhost.

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