Changes the paradigm for the economic measures, and to surprise and Beijing to
take the first steps: the province of Fujian, which lives on export and
manufacturing, replace the Product with gross indices on agriculture and the
protection of the environment. Hebei has already implemented the turn with a
plane anti-poverty. The "primary duty" is no longer the growth to the old way,
but the protection of acres of forest. Although some doubt remains
LONDRA - That wealth is not sufficient to measure the welfare is not a novelty, nor are
various attempts, in the world, to replace the GDP with other measurements, such
as the "happiness" choice from Bhutan. But now the China to move, with more than
70 cities and districts that have abandoned the gross news domestic product as a
measure of the local performance. The vertices of the party have established at
the end of the last year and the premier Xi Jinping has confirmed in June: "we
can no longer use the simple GDP to decide who are the better". Government
officials are by assimilating the countermand: now asking for things like
attention to the environment and poverty reduction. And while the OECD plans to
replace the GDP with his Better Life Index, come the first concrete signs, in
the opinion news of the Financial Times, the fact that China is actually leaving the
mantra of economic growth at any cost to encourage a better quality of life.
Fujian, coastal province has so far concentrated on the movement of exports and
manufacturing, is one of the examples: this month announced that will replace
the GDP with indexes on agriculture and the protection of the environment in 34
of its districts. In recent months news was the time of Hebei steel district north of
Beijing, and Ningxia, poor region of north-east of China. In Hebei the objective
now is to reduce the factories that produce smog (smog that afflicts even
Beijing, about a hundred kilometers, which in turn is closing its plants more
pollutants). Therefore cement factories, steel mills and power plants. In
addition, there is a plan to combat poverty and rural development, with the aim
of reducing it to zero by 2020, while the Agricultural University of Hebei
produces thesis on poverty and tourism, studying how to capitalize on the
heritage making it usable (with better infrastructure, more regional cooperation
and more advertising) to the "ecological tourists and tourism Red", as he writes news the scholar Zhang Pengtao. The areas of Guangxi, Guangdong and Jiangxi have in
turn slowed the race to the GDP growth and encourage tertiary news and primary, with
services, farms and processing news industrial not of its products. In the district
of Tiannan, Jiangxi Province, to track the GDP have introduced three factories
of ceramics and a processing plant non-ferrous metals. But now that the GDP is
no longer a "primary duty", as explained the secretary of the local party Sheng
Hengda the Xinhua news agency, "we have equipped the factories with structures
that deal with pollution". In Sichuan province, the most populated of the China,
the local government has divided cities and the countryside in two different
groups of evaluation. The regulation, published at the end of June, explains
that 58 districts with good ecosystems were exempted from the evaluation of GDP.
The forthcoming evaluations of local progress will be made on two parameters:
the news measurement of acres of forest preserved is that of the news decrease in the rate
of poverty achieved. In the meantime, the iugura region of Xinjiang has changed
objectives: protection of nature, too. The same Beijing now boasts of having
closed in the first half of the year well 213 polluting industry. In most
sectors, "clean" as information technology and financial services have covered
more than 50% of the GDP growth citizen, that li is in force but is changing
content, precisely. Everything proceeds according to the new line decided by the
party, therefore. Even if a doubt remains. As reports the Financial Times, the
race for the GDP and to the wealth, even staff, has created excellent relations
between the representatives of the government and the polluting traditional
industries: entire careers built on triumphs of the GDP of its area, as in the
case of Zhang Gaoli, a member of the Standing news Committee of the Politburo from
end of 2012, where he arrived also for the growth of the GDP of the megacity of
Tianjin in recent years, from when he became secretary of the local party, in
2007. As he has done? Supporting large news construction companies that have
produced, among other things, the "chinese response to Manhattan", i.e. the
skyscrapers of the financial district of Yujiapu. Today, a huge part of condos
remains empty, but him and vice premier, newly news appointed also the head of office
that will promote the "synergetic development" of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei
province.
