The Economic Base in China

To some extent the increasing integration of the Chinese economy of high-tech products reflects the push by the Chinese government and Chinese workers to create the kinds of products that will be most desirable on the world market in the 21st century. That is, to some extent this shift reflects internal factors. But to some extent it also reflects the degree to which globalization is affected China as well as every other nation. Although China remains more politically as well as economically isolated (or self-sufficient, depending upon one's perspective) from the world system than do other large nations, it too is increasingly being drawn into the cross-border economic connections that define globalization, which is (to put it in the simplest terms) a realignment of power between political organizations and economic ones.

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ustrial Revolution was not, as it is often portrayed, a single event. Rather, it is a term used to describe the shift, at different times and in different ways in different parts of the world, from traditional agricultural and/or pastoral based economies to an economic system based on the mechanized production of manufactured goods in large-scale enterprises. And, of course, it is imperative to remember that the Industrial Revolution did not supplant agrarianism; if we were not still in important ways an agrarian society we should all starve. Rather, industrialization grew up beside agrarianism in the way that agrarianism had once grown up beside Pastoralism. Thus while many Chinese workers are now making parts for computers, others are still farmers. This reflects no fundamental weakness or backwardness on the part of China but rather a reality of human society: Computers are certainly useful and it is no doubt essential for China to diversify its economy in the direction of high-tech products, rice is still more important than silicon, for if a country cannot feed its people (and the farmers of the world cannot feed the species) than nothing else matters. High-Tech Products In the first half of 2003, China exported high-tec
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