What is the biggest problem facing China according to you people?

[Bussard Ramjet]

They need to shed their arrogance! It seems to be getting worse every passing day resulting in countries now hesitating to do business with China. Their FDI inflows have fallen dramatically and dropped below India which has become the number one FDI destination in the world.

Ok, I will add arrogance, and closed mindedness to the potential pit falls.

 

[Shotgunner51]

They need to shed their arrogance! It seems to be getting worse every passing day resulting in countries now hesitating to do business with China. Their FDI inflows have fallen dramatically and dropped below India which has become the number one FDI destination in the world.

It's utter disinformation, and foolish conclusion. There is no way that Ernst & Young (which conducted a "survey" to a confined number of respondents) nor fDi Markets (I also demand an explanation on the use of "CAPEX" in reporting FDI, why?) has more reliable data on Foreign Direct Investments than the Reserve Bank of India or another government department like DIPP. These are official sources:

Reserve Bank of India - RBI Bulletin
Reserve Bank of India - Press Releases
Reserve Bank of India - RBI Bulletin
The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion - FDI Statistics​

According to the RBI data, Indian FDI stood at $18.9 billion in the first half of 2015. During the same period, FDI to China was $68.4 billion (Up 8% YOY), FDI to US was $72.1 billion.

China Foreign Direct Investment | 1997-2015 | Data | Chart | Calendar
United States Foreign Direct Investment | 1994-2015 | Data | Chart​

Journalism using inaccurate second-hand data, distorting facts, spreading disinformation and fooling audience into delusional joy? Cheers I can see on this forum, the thread is just a laughing stock:

India Becomes World’s Top FDI Destination, Beats USA & China​

India is not even close, let alone surpassing, get your facts right. Now how would you adjust your statement, or it's was meant to an idiotic self-bashing joke?

 

[AndrewJin]

It's utter disinformation, and foolish conclusion. There is no way that Ernst & Young (which conducted a survey to a confined number of respondents) nor fDi Markets (I also demand an explanation on the use of "CAPEX" in reporting FDI, why?) has more reliable data on Foreign Direct Investments than the Reserve Bank of India or another government department like DIPP. These are official sources:

Reserve Bank of India - RBI Bulletin
Reserve Bank of India - Press Releases
Reserve Bank of India - RBI Bulletin
The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion - FDI Statistics​

According to the RBI data, Indian FDI stood at $18.9 billion in the first half of 2015. During the same period, FDI to China was $68.4 billion (Up 8% YOY), FDI to US was $72.1 billion.

China Foreign Direct Investment | 1997-2015 | Data | Chart | Calendar
United States Foreign Direct Investment | 1994-2015 | Data | Chart​

Journalism using second-hand information, distorting facts, spreading disinformation and fooling audience into delusional joy? India is not even close let alone surpassing, get your facts right.

What? India is not number one destination of FDI? Maybe we should wait until 2012!

 

[CHN Bamboo]

you must secretly have a crush on me

It's alerts that bring me here.
:3

 

[GS Zhou]

Are you aware that there is a HUGE oversupply of infra in 3rd and 4th tier cities?

It depends on the benchmark criteria. Based on a normal 3rd world country standard, Yes, there is huge oversupply there. But based on our own standard, there is still long way to go.

We will not be satisfied before all >500,000 population cities have their own metros and be connected with high speed trains and express ways.

Chinese members here, almost exclusively share positive news about China.

That is because the China news reported outside China are almost all negative. Therefore we come here to contribute some tiny efforts to assure that at least the PDF users are not brainwashed by CNN or BCC.

 

[Edison Chen]

Why didn't anyone mention the Rule of Law, and Judicial Independence?

Rule of law and China's one party system are never mutually exclusive things.

 

[GS Zhou]

So government should step aside from developing things, and give market more chance.

We've seen too many countries that "government step aside from developing things", but unfortunately, only very few could outperform china in terms of economic development.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Rule of law and China's one party system are never mutually exclusive things.

They may not be, but for that the one party system will have to do certain changes, like getting out of the judicial system. A one party system where the people who are to be investigated, themselves make up the courts can not maintain a robust rule of law.

 

[Edison Chen]

They may not be, but for that the one party system will have to do certain changes, like getting out of the judicial system. A one party system where the people who are to be investigated, themselves make up the courts can not maintain a robust rule of law.

Segregation of duties, yeah.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

So you mean the largest democracy supa powa country owns a robust rule of law?

There are problems in our legal procedure, but they are different compared to China.

The biggest problem in our legal system is the slow speed of cases, the back log in cases, and the requirement of money.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Dictatorship leading to widespread civil unrest in the next 10 years. It is never a good idea to let the people become rich and comfortable if your intention is to rule them with an authoritarian establishment.

 

[GS Zhou]

Dictatorship leading to widespread civil unrest in the next 10 years. It is never a good idea to let the people become rich and comfortable if your intention is to rule them with an authoritarian establishment.

the so called dictatorship in China at least makes people rich and comfortable. While the largest democracy could only make speech to their people that they "will/shall/are going to be" rich and comfortable.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

the so called dictatorship in China at least makes people rich and comfortable. While the largest democracy could only make speech to their people that they "will/shall/are going to be" rich and comfortable.

So called dictatorship made people rich after losing millions of people in political convulsions ranging from Great leap forward to Cultural Revolution. In Dictatorship people becoming rich and comfortable is just the little window before the whole thing starts convulsing again. In democracy once people achieve higher levels of prosperity it stays largely stable. China is no scratch on the US, 'nuff said.

 

[GS Zhou]

So called dictatorship made people rich after losing millions of people in political convulsions ranging from Great leap forward to Cultural Revolution. In Dictatorship people becoming rich and comfortable is just the little window before the whole thing starts convulsing again. In democracy once people achieve higher levels of prosperity it stays largely stable. China is no scratch on the US, 'nuff said.

The largest democracy leaves their people in poverty, famine, illiteracy, low life expectancy, caste, while the only return is the never-realized promise that tomorrow will/shall/should/is going to be better.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

The largest democracy leaves their people in poverty, famine, illiteracy, low life expectancy, caste, while the only return is the never-realized promise that tomorrow will/shall/should/is going to be better.

Indians love talking about the past, what ifs, should/could/would, etc

Prosperous CHina phase....exactly 25 years. majority of history (especially 20th century) famine, poverty, people dying on streets, people dying in kangaroo courts etc. Hell even Deng Xiao Ping bore the runt of it in jails. Far worse than anything India has seen. Maybe a lot less talk and a lot more humility will help. You are the only generation that has seen some money. Rest of your history is famine and mass killings. United States has 10 times more per capita than you. And no- you don't have it in you to match them.