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Question

How can people in the developed world enjoy cheap products and also criticize China for its rapid industrialization? Qin Chuan


Answer

Kailash Satyarthi: Well, Qin, you must understand that their criticism has a reason, and their criticism is basically their jealousness or their fear. They are jealous to look at your economic growth on one hand. But, on the other hand, they are afraid of losing their own jobs and economic growth. That is the reason. If the world market is poured with the cheap Chinese goods, then everybody is afraid that they may lose their own production, they may lose their own jobs and so on. So, that is the reason. But, I would also say that when it comes to the criticism I would always vouch for better working and living conditions of Chinese workers because that is one question which I would like to raise that until and unless you have decent working conditions, until and unless you have freedom of association to Chinese workers those who are the backbone of all the economic growth of China today, it would not be justified to go so fast as a big economic boom. So, it is very important that the Chinese production should also linked with the social justice for Chinese workers, women and children, especially the children. Now, it is, there are stories that the children are joining the workforce in early ages and the child labor problem is growing in China. Children are dropping out from the schools and going to work in production because they feel that they can earn easy money. So, that's a big question that the economic growth of China or any country must not based on the young children, the exploited women and the workers who are not living in free and decent conditions -- working and living conditions.