The most commonly used term – GDP, if compared with India, is 5 times more than that of our country. Therefore, the percentage facts show just the half-truth and it’s important to know the complete picture of the same. The slowdown of the GDP in China is intentional and is a part of the country’s five year plan because they are now looking for a sustainable growth by learning from their own mistakes of exhausting resources to a high extent. China, though known to be developing, did not look any less than a developed one. Whether you talk about the physical infrastructure, organized cities and villages, bullet trains, railway stations, airports or the technological infrastructure such as wide use of IT enabled services, hospitality, etc. I could not find much difference between China and the developed nations.
After spending two months in the beautiful seashore city of Qingdao and short visits to places like Beijing, Jinhua, and the ancient village of Siping, I can very well say that the perceptions that we had before coming to China are not totally true and I could feel that there are lot many things about China which one can only understand after staying in the territory, knowing people personally, creating Guanxi by interacting with them, travelling throughout the country, exposing ourselves and by being vulnerable.
I love my country from the bottom of my heart and would like to see it on top of all over the world. When I happened to think on the lines of “China’s pain is India’s gain”, I could not find any reasons to believe the same. What I could observe was that instead of thinking about the loss of China and looking at it as opportunity of India’s growth, India needs to focus on its own strengths. India needs to identify and study the timeline of China – how China was able to generate so much growth, what mistakes did they commit, how they are trying to resolve their problems and much more and scholars can do the most effective way job for the same. Therefore, empowering scholars from various fields like management, social and political scientists, technology, etc. needs to be one of the important step that we can take as a country.
Programs like Make in India, Skill India, Stand Up India, Start Up India, Clean India etc. are already started to serve this purpose, however, the appropriate implementation of such programs is all the more important. It’s not about copying each and everything from China, it’s more about understanding what is appropriate and what not for India.
Anubhav Singhal
PGPEx 2015-16, IIM Shillong
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