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?板害?ユ??20澶?搴ф?哥?电?锛??歌?藉???靛???ㄥ?板害?????靛??渚?搴???3%锛???涓??芥?哥?靛???荤?甸????姣?渚??ㄥ?ㄧ????澶х??17涓??哥?靛?戒腑?????

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涓?浣??板害浜虹?奸????涓??姐?????ㄤ腑?藉??浜???涓?????锛???璁や负????蹇?瑕?璁板?涓?????瑙??伙???涓哄?浠?????寰?姣???绔?娉?????浠??绘????╃?绉扳??涓??藉?堕??????究瀹?涓??ｈ川????浣???腑?借?涓???涓?瑗垮?磋?娉?浜?杩?涓?瀹?寰?锛?寤虹???浜鸿????????????卞???????ㄧ?绛??芥???娴??????ㄤ腑?界????甯???涔℃??锛?浣???互??瑙??板钩绛??????板害涓??凤???浜烘???ц?よ?层??浣?????缇?涓??ュ???剁骇???拌薄骞朵????俱???板害缁?甯告?胯??繁??缁?娴???灞???涓??界?告???浣?浜?瀹?涓?寰?涓?搴?璇ャ??杩?涓????椤规?璧?锛?涔???娉?寰?濂???濡???????????烘?璧?锛??ｄ???浠?凡缁?杈?浜?骞朵?杩??ㄧ户缁????

Why we have lost the race to China

涓轰?涔???浠??缁?浜?涓??斤?

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I am in China on holiday for a few weeks. I thought I should record my observations, as they occur to me and in no particular order. We say ??Made in China?? sniggeringly to indicate cheap and poorly made things. The evidence on China??s streets does not betray this lack of quality. The finish and construction of their pavements and parks, the way their gardens are laid out and the trees in their public spaces. All these things are first rate.

???ㄤ腑?藉??浜???涓?????锛???璁や负????蹇?瑕?璁板?涓?????瑙??伙???涓哄?浠?????寰?姣???绔?娉?????浠??绘????╃?绉扳??涓??藉?堕??????究瀹?涓??ｈ川????浣???腑?借?涓???涓?瑗垮?磋?娉?浜?杩?涓?瀹?寰?锛?寤虹???浜鸿????????????卞???????ㄧ?绛??芥???娴?????

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The small things, the details in China are right. Platforms are aligned exactly to the height of train floors. There is cleanliness and it comes from an engagement with surroundings.

涓??界??灏?缁???浠??涓??风???瑙?寰??????版?规????溅????璁捐?锛?涓??ㄩ????????稿?搴???骞插???存???

When we attribute Singapore??s order to Lee Kuan Yew??s genius, we must be able to explain why Hong Kong is also as clean. The reason is of course that it is the Chinese whom we must credit and not some dictator.

褰???浠????板???＄???撮???搴?褰???浜????????????斤???浠??搴?璇ヨ??借В??涓轰?涔?棣?娓??寰?骞插??????浠??椤绘?胯?涓??芥???娓??存???????涔?涓?锛?浠?浠?苟涓??????????

One of the first things that one notices at the table is that the Chinese respect vegetables, unlike us. One can taste the flavour of the food on the plate, which is cooked with a light touch, not assaulted with masala. The other thing is how many vegetables they serve. We stress our vegetarianism but are essentially grain eaters.

??浠??椁?妗?涓?娉ㄦ???扮??绗???规???涓??戒汉????????锛?浠?浠????浠???????ㄤ腑?界??椁?妗?涓?锛?浣??藉??灏??伴??╃????濮?婊??筹?娌℃??娣峰?ュ?澶?棣??????﹀?涓??规???浠?浠???渚?寰?澶?????????浠???弗?肩??绱?椋?涓讳?锛?浣??村?烘???????璋风?┿??

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I would say this difference also extends to tea, which the Chinese respect, unlike us. The freedom fighter Maulana Abul Kalam Azad once began researching tea and came to reject what passed for the beverage in India. He called it ??liquid halwa??.

杩???涓??逛???锛?灏辨??腑?戒汉寰???娆㈣?躲?????辨??澹?aulana Azad?垮?路?℃??濮?瀵绘?捐?讹??跺??浠???缁?浜??板害??楗?????浠?绉颁?涓烘恫浣?halwa??

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On the street in China??s cities and towns, there is equality, physically speaking. The chasm, the physical separation of Indians by class??compare your colour, size, beauty to that of your servant??is unapparent.

?ㄤ腑?界????甯???涔℃??锛?浣???互??瑙??板钩绛??????板害涓??凤???浜烘???ц?よ?层??浣?????缇?涓??ュ???剁骇???拌薄骞朵????俱??

The Han, 90% of China??s population, are a beautiful people, small but not malnourished, radiant of skin and with no body hair. Like in European nations, the dominant physical shape is slender and thin.

90%??涓??戒汉?ｆ?????锛?杩????涓??涓界??浜虹?锛?浠?浠????灏?锛?浣?骞朵????ュ?讳?????よ?查????????锛?娌℃??浣?姣???灏卞??娆ф床姘???涓??凤???涓昏???浣????????°??

The old are alive in spirit, active in workplaces (we were rowed on a boat by five men of whom the youngest was 74). The parks are full of old people exercising, the tea houses are packed with them.

??浜轰滑??褰???澹???ㄥ伐浣??烘??涔?渚??舵椿璺?锛???浠????规?讹??逛????瑰か??骞磋交????4宀?锛?????????涔??芥????浜轰滑?ㄩ?荤?硷??舵?夸腑涔???澶????浠?浠???韬?奖??

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The Chinese have a genetic lack of tolerance to alcohol (meaning they get hammered easily). Most beers contain 2.5% alcohol. Two 320ml cans contain only as much alcohol as a small 30ml drink.

涓??戒汉瀵逛???绮剧???垫????澶╃??杈?寮便??璁稿????ら????????2.5%????绮撅?涓ょ?320ml???ら????????????绮惧ぇ姒?????30ml.

Though English is now compulsory from kindergarten in cities, almost nobody speaks it (Chinese people can modernize themselves without leaning on the West, unlike us).

?界?惰?辫?浠???甯???骞煎?垮??捣灏辨????℃???诧?浣?????涔?娌℃??浜鸿???涓??戒汉骞朵?璁や负浠?浠??瀹?瑕?瀛︿?瑗挎?规???芥?惧??颁唬锛?涓?????浠???

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Yet car number plates are in English because the Chinese system is too complicated for the small plates and I suppose for quick reading.

杞︾???风?????辨??锛?涔?璁稿??涓轰腑?界??绯荤?澶????浜?锛??ㄥ?灏???涓???杞︾??涓??句互琛ㄧず锛??ㄨ?辨??涔?渚夸???璇汇??锛??板害浜轰??ラ???ｄ????辨???????璇??奸?筹?

The English on signs is strange, as we all know, and probably the result of someone using a dictionary: ??Tickets once sold will be dishonoured.??

????涓????辫?寰?濂????姝ｅ???浠????ョ??涓??凤????戒?浠??芥???ュ??稿????锛?姣?濡???Tickets once sold will be dishonoured.??锛?绁ㄤ??﹀???哄??涓?XX锛?锛?锛?涓??藉??辫???涓?娆¤?杩?甯???澶?寮?浜??夸?瑙?璇??靛?碉?

We Indians, all of us??secularists, communalists, Hindus, Muslims, all put together??are irrelevant in that sense. That is what experiencing the world will teach those of us who can afford to travel and haven??t allowed our minds to be shut by our fierce nationalism.

?板害浜猴??????琚?富涔??????变骇涓讳??????板害????寰???msl锛??跺??芥??????崇郴????涓?????浼???浠??????浣?涓?璁╄??繁????缁磋?绂????涓?瑕?琚???浠??????姘???涓讳?褰卞??

The truth is we have few achievements. We squabble daily over idiotic things??ban Maggi! ban Uber!??while other nations have lifted themselves.

??浜?瀹?涓?锛???浠???????灏?????浠??澶╅?藉?ㄤ负???㈢??浜???浜??点??绂?姝?AGGI锛?绂?姝?BER锛??ㄥ?朵??藉?杩?姝ョ???跺????

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Sailing to see the Three Gorges dam, my map showed 45 bridges across that patch of the Yangtze river and its tributaries. The entire Brahmaputra has how many? Two? A single Chinese city, Chongqing, a place few Indians have heard of, has likely seen more industrial development in the last decade than all India??s cities combined. Comparisons are embarrassing, and meaningless.

Anyway, even the Chinese are not there yet, not a fully developed nation with economic and political freedom and without everyday corruption, like Europe, like Japan. But you can see their path. Three more decades of this growth and they are there. Political freedom will come automatically in one way or another.

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?荤??涓?宄″ぇ??锛??????板?句??剧ず45搴уぇ妗ユí璺ㄩ?挎????舵??????翠釜??椴?璧?甯?姹?涓???澶?灏????2锛?涓?涓?腑?藉??甯?锛???搴?锛?寰?澶??板害浜洪?芥病?????锛?浣????浠??ㄤ?涓??绾???宸ヤ???灞?灏辫?杩?浜??翠釜?板害?藉???姣?杈?浠や汉灏村艾锛?涓?????涔???涓?杩?锛?涓??戒?杩???杩?姝ワ?浠?浠??杩?娌℃????娆ф床???ユ????峰?ㄧ?娴????挎不???辨?归?㈠??灞?瀹????杩?瀛??ㄨ??璐ャ??浣?浣???互??瑙?浠?浠???杩?姝ャ??????涓?涓??绾???杩?姝ヤ?浠?氨瀹???浜????挎不???辨?讳????ㄦ??浠ュ?朵??瑰??版?ャ??

What??s our path out of darkness and into civilization and an equal and prosperous society? Frankly I cannot see it. But I do know that those who say it is through government, meaning that the rest of us????civil society????do nothing, are wrong.

??浠???绂婚???杩??ユ????????璺??ㄤ??癸???浠???骞崇?绻??ｇぞ浼??ㄤ??癸?璇村?璇?锛?????涓?瑙???浣????ラ??锛??ｄ?璇磋????垮?锛???姘?涓伙??ュ???锛?蹇借????绀句?????????璇存?涓?瀹?????璇?????