here comes the sun...
Autor: paulanachina | Publicado: 2012-03-15T23:19:00-07:00

Finally we can see the Sun again.....dont say it too loud! &nbsp;it might go away again... 
It is getting warmer and we can finally say the spring is coming.
But dont get too excited ! Soon i will be complaining how HOT it is !!!
Or how crowed it is... or how dirty it is... 

I know , i know.. my posts are not very positive lately, i appologize...i guess the fact that im getting ready to go home for a short holiday that put all things in a different perspective, a more negative one im afraid.

But there is not much i can do .. in fact things in China are not so romantic as people think. The system here is far from being the one MAO idealized for this country. The progress is coming but with it destruction and pollution.

Talking about that...
This week i went on a day trip to YIWU , a city nearby , to visit a factory and get some suppliers for a client in brazil. ( that is my side job now). Well I thought.. a day out! I will have a chance to enjoy a little of the road and see some green ,the countryside, i will be able to see the mountains and maybe even enjoy the sun that is shinning again.

And indeed.. I got on the bus , and here i was feeling the sun heat, looking at the mountains... rivers.. and trash.. plastic bags... garbage...debris.. and more plastic bags.. and trees... were are the trees?? and what is going on with that river ? where is the water? i can only see plastic floating!!

Im not exagerating....

It was a 3 hours ride, and all i could see was poluted rivers , filled with plastic bags floating or trapped on the marginal trees. The mountains are so devasted that you can barely see trees... most of them are being used as farm land, so now after so many months of winter you can only see the destruction the man is causing to the mountain.. Maybe it was like this last summer when i last passed by this road, but maybe the green from the plantation fooled my eyes, and what i thought was nature was in fact man destroying the mountains and forest to grow crops.
The winter exposes it all. 

There were no mountains between Ningbo and Yiwu that werent touched by man, there were no rivers with clean water, and no field without some kind of debri.

So last week's post makes more sense now to me. It is not only on the cities but the countryside is also being attacked by this constant progress. 
So my question is PROGRESS OR DESTRUCTION??
Dont need to be an expert on the topic to know the answer. 
I was so sad to see all that.. and the reality made me so discouraged.
The reality is&nbsp;that &nbsp;the country is growing and needs to provide food for all this people. They need the factories to produce so they will have what to sell to the rest of the world. And we are all buying chinese products&nbsp;, we all need them.
So in the end.. we are all part of this ... 
Sad..
But on the other hand... no.. we are not responsable when a chinese farmer decides to throw his trash on the river. No we are not responsable when the factory polutes the river nearby, NO we are not responsable for this lack of social conscience , for this lack of education... and NO we are not resposable for the fact that they are not thinking about the future.
My second question is .. what are they going to do when they finish destroying their country? 
I dont want to know the answer...