How China Suddenly Became Wealthy

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The Chinese state is wealthy. Not it's people.

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The 9-9-6 and extreme competition is caused by what Chinese youth calls "involution", where workers try to outdo other workers for rewards, but every worker do it so the bar keeps rising and rising.

There is a movement growing against it in younger generations so it should eventually mellow out

Hard work ethics isn’t 70 years old, it’s part of our 4000+ year old culture. In the west the individual works for itself, in china, the individual works for the family and the country. That’s why in the west kids are encouraged to reach for their dreams, while chinese kids are encouraged to choose what’s best for the future, interest is second. there’s pros and cons to both, but a good way of putting it is, the chinese model has kept the society going for more than 4000 years straight.

As a student majors in economy in China, I totally disagree with the process as "swithing to capitalism" since it's undeniable that the percentage of state-owned corporation in elementary and significant sectors is still extremely high, and meanwhile the predominance of lands by the nation is still in existence, and so forth. It's simply a sort of policies emboding the marketing economy and globalization.

east asian model >

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It’s wild that Americans on xiao hong shu are in shock about the Chinese city high standard of living and the Chinese are shocked and sad at our near zombie survival movie city slums. The world turns…

A very enlightening for an ignorant idiot. Thanks Ryan.

Why did they try so hard to lower their own population or was that propaganda?

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State Capitalism?

Hard work and discipline stem from China being an agrarian society where any mishap on seeding, tilting, harvesting in scheduled time means life or death. Prioritizing education is cultural, the mostly deep rooted religion since Confucius time over 2000 years ago.

The rest of the positive impact in my view belong to the government leadership after the death of Mao.

And then here is my country India who has the same factor as China. But the government was so afraid of either side of the political spectrum that they instead took the worse ideas of both sides and ran the country.

I love these videos thank you

Very hard work, being very smart, and having political flexibility i.e CCP can change/interpret the constitution if they need to so they keep up with changing demands

great content

Deng Xiaoping is known as the " Architect of Modern China" and I believe he rightly deserves such credit. As for the 'gradualist" vs 'shock-therapy', China is 'lucky' that the gradualists prevailed. America, otoh, has it's own form of 'shock therapy' every four years during and after its presidential elections as each national party seeks power and tries to retain it for another four years. China sails with the wind while America tacks to port and starboard against the wind. Do I favor a one party system like China? No. But, like Deng Xiaoping realized, things can be better...

As a Chinese, as long as I appreciate your acknowledgment of my leaders, I have to say that the best thing my government did was doing nothing and allowing the people to do their business. Now they are trying to manoeuvre the economy again and we are doomed.

Sanctions & Coercion from the US is also playing a vital role to push the Chinese people to work harder and try to
come out of the " Century of Humiliation" as soon as possible .

The work ethics are same for Japan, i heard people have even died due to exhaustion... i guess both Japan and China are same in work culture

The norm? You been listening to HIS-story haven't you? Indoctrinated much?
Well at least your perpetuating the lies of our fake history...
Smfh

It's called weak leadership and theft and sales of our technology.
Period

I think you missed a crucial factor here - the unique federalist structure that the chinese leaders created. This isn't some "copy the tried-and-tested method" but rather something they invented, where the growth is created at the most local level by intelligently funding the right companies or investing in infrastructure, and the party officials responsible for creating growth are then rewarded by promotions within the party. This incentivizes growth at the most local level, and the systems thus created reinforces intelligent leadership.

The banking & financial system

我觉得少了一个比较重要的条件，比较全面的工业基础，尽管和世界水平比比较低级，但是提出改革开放的时候，中国已经可以独立生产卫星，火箭，飞机，坦克，汽车，轮船，机床。。。绝大多数的工业品了。和世界的接触提高了工业化的水平和范围，但那时候已经不是从零开始了。相比之下，建国的时候，套用毛泽东的话说，新中国只能生产桌子、椅子、茶杯、茶叶

Hi Ryan, to find someone like you today via internet, is one of the best redemptions for my countless hours spent surfing this space. Thank you for sharing your views and knowledge. This is awesome! (BTW I am a Chinese who currently lives in the UK and am interested in the USA, political philosophies and concepts, and I do not have the temperament to read as comprehensive as you do. ;)

Same old far right bullsh!t. Lol if China has developed because of Capitalism, then why hasn't India and many other third world countries that have a far more liberalized economy than China, are still poor in all aspects?

Not even Japan, Singapore and South Korea have the same Neo Liberal policies being propagated by the west. The 4 Asian tigers have an economy that is completely planned and driven by the state. Of course, they say the opposite to the world, but their economies, infrastrictural development, culture and most importantly their politics, are the complete opposite of Neo Liberalism.

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More freedom than the US, less regulation, pro growth, and a smarter population.

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Meanwhile in the US presidential debate: 🤡 vs 👴

History is my passion too. Your good at this. Keep up the good work. ❤

Confucianism has been a really important driver of the Chinese type of education, not for just 50yrs but for like 2000.

I grew up and educated through college in China, I would say this video's content is the most close to what I have experienced and participated. I appreciate your efforts on this brilliant work!

tbh, their work culture sounds like hell on earth

The past few decades have been meteoric but also unsustainable. China is facing a few different reckonenings in part caused by government policies- plummeting birth rates and population loss (one child policy), housing collapse (partly because chinese cant invest in a stock market and instead turn to property pyramid schemes), and a limited amount of possible/worthwhile new megaprojects that have helped to prop up China's GDP figures

I hate how you carry yourself by slightly moving every word you say but at the same time I love your videos 😂 keep it up man

Learn from china.

Humility?

One child

"Chinese leaders" is an American way to avoid saying the "Chinese Communist Party". Love your videos but saying China is what it is because of luck and because capitalism is a very biased view. I also noticed ALL of the authors you mentioned are Americans writing about China.

Hello Ryan, congratulations! You have the gift.
I would be curious to see a similar analysis for the success of Singapore.
Singapore must have a very different set of factors comparing to China’s.
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An interesting video and an interesting commment section. Thank you!

I think there is a minor important factor contributing to the China miracle, which is their 1 party system. Yes, sounds weird to Americans but having 1 party with consistent policy and vision makes China's develop much much faster compared to a democratic multiple parties system. Because it always take a long time for a multiple parties government to agree in anything. When CCP decides they must improve Chinese education and infrastructure at all cost, they will do everything to do that, and consistently for 5-10 or more years. In single party countries like China or Vietnam the governments tend to plan for 5-10 years with vision for 20 years ahead while it's very hard to do so in countries having constantly changing ruling parties like the US.

Nobody talks about land reforms? Which is the fundamental to todays China society