Future Of China After

It’s okay if you hate these ideas. These are just the basic starting points that our group came up with. What we’d like to do is hold a class discussion on what the most pressing problems are and what the best solutions would be. The product of this final student-led class will (hopefully) be something like an improptu Idiot’s Guide to Improving China handbook, representing the ideas of every individual in our class.

 Make high school compulsory  Ensure quality of education- curriculum review and update  Hire more qualified teachers- worth the investment  Pay teachers more to entice competitive professional teachers  Build prestige for the profession of teaching – think “wise 

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leader” sort of thing Facilitate quality education to rural areas- build university “branches”  Work study programs  Open classes Online classes PC government program  Special, traceable computers to signify government-subsidized PCs  Distance learning for rural areas, college classes, and job training Research encouragement  Open up the ability to research  Fund expanding internet access Poverty line and below: free education GPA construction Entrance Exams: keep, but shift focus. Admission to Universities

Improve communication within the country  Introduce the rural areas to the internet and

other communications devices  Lay a fiber optic network that connects the entire country

Send government officials to oversee distant

areas

 Rotate well-paid officials in and out of different

areas randomly to avoid corruption  Conduct regular – but random – audits and inspections to ensure lawful practices

Establish all-purpose government-run centers

to handle health care, law enforcement, etc.

 Easier to establish one center to handle many

Perhaps avoid rotating officials  Build relationships with constituency  Build experience with a certain community

Bring government’s concern outward Anonymous methods of advising and criticism

for the people

Bumper crops Animal farming Hydroponics! Aeroponics Apiculture Encourage research and technology in this

area Facilitate access of rural areas to new technology

Growing plants using mineral nutrient

solutions, without SOIL! Soil acts as a mineral nutrient reservoir (not entirely essential) Mineral nutrients dissolve in water; plant roots are able to absorb them Almost any terrestrial plant will grow with hydroponics!

Growing plants in an air or mist environment

without the use of soil or a medium Can also be done in a semi-closed environment Spraying the plant roots with a nutrient rich solution Aeration of nutrient solution delivers more oxygen to plant roots

Maintenance of bee colonies in order to

pollinate crops and collect honey Diverse Climate Develop research on cultivating crops best suited for the mulitude of Chinese environments - maximize efficiency/crop production

Work on making the water supply more

mobile  Install a better water system  Look into other methods of collecting water Rainwater Humidity/moisture

Repeal one child policy and EAT BABIES Get over it and just continue to trade for food  Work on diplomacy and trade

Genetic engineering of crops resistant to

pressures

Clean energy from renewable sources  Take advantage of the great capacity for

hydropower  Wind farms  Install solar panels on every flat surface possible Mandatory recycling Introduce green spaces into urban areas Green architecture

Wind Farms  Chinese analysts estimate that the total potential wind

power generating capacity in China exceeds 1 million MW  Thrive in higher altitudes  Land between turbines can be used for just about anything, as long as it isn’t too tall  Large wind resources are in the northern part of the country, including Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, with vast windswept plains constituting China's "wind belt" similar to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada  Currently, China has an installed capacity of just over 6000 MW and is in fifth place globally  Policymakers have set a goal of 10 GW by 2010, however this is a mere fraction of China’s potential

This is architecture that incorporates plant life

into buildings using aeroponics and hydroponics  Different types of plants have been found to remove pollution from the environment  Genetically engineered plants have been

specifically designed to remove pollution even better than their natural counterparts Raises awareness and appreciation Several designs for farming in skyscrapers

have been proposed

Getting western countries on board - tarriffs, taxes, penalties for producing pollution over a certain amount - make outside investors choose between greener practices and paying for pollution credits Create a cultural movement that values green practices and responsible stewardship of land Offer incentives for investors to engage in green practices - create competition - tax breaks, preferential treatment, special

More successful and far-reaching job training

programs with flexible hours Job placement program  Government will require both government-

controlled operations and private businesses to register job openings that remain open for longer than a certain amount of time  Individuals seeking jobs enter the program, and the government matches the individual with an employer  This may involve relocation, additional training, etc.

Create jobs for anything and everything! Government-subsidized jobs that benefit

society  Hydroponics, green energy – government

projects  Bring into rural areas and have these people build and then operate No tea parties - EVER

Mastercard is not an option.

 Tax the growing upper class  Increase investment opportunities

 Development research in applied sciences and

technology  Manufacturing and marketing

 Increase tax on investing companies

 Balance between deterring investors and profiting

as much as possible

 Rent-a-convict

 Rather than killing most of the criminals, use them!  Much like the job placement program, place non-

violent criminals in jobs  Rather than keeping their wages, the wages go to the country  Prisoners wear electronic GPS bracelets at all times and are subject to evaluation by supervisors  Keep them in line by threatening to put them back

Put convicts to work and sell the products Sell the organs of executed convicts  Methods of killing the convicts without

damaging organs Government should start pirating things

Anything we left out?