{"id":32070,"date":"2014-06-23T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:44:33","slug":"7070-chinese-factory-owners-lament-loss-of-blue-sky-and-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/business\/7070-chinese-factory-owners-lament-loss-of-blue-sky-and-clean-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese factory owners lament loss of blue sky and clean water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]-->  <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n \n  Normal\n  0\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  false\n  false\n  false\n  \n  EN-US\n  JA\n  X-NONE\n  \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n  \n  \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n  \n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]-->  <!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers are a critical component of China&rsquo;s environmental problems, accounting for 15-30% of air pollutants, according to some studies. In 2013, I spent a year interviewing owners and managers of eastern Chinese manufacturing firms in an attempt to understand how they view environmental protection on a personal and corporate level. <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/6317-What-Chinese-factory-bosses-really-think-about-environmental-protection\">previous article for <em>chinadialogue<\/em><\/a>, I wrote about how these manager&rsquo;s environmental perceptions affect their corporate policies and understanding of national and local laws. But how do they feel China&rsquo;s environmental problems, which they contribute to, affect societal and individual happiness?<\/p>\n<p>When I asked factory managers to describe their thoughts on China&rsquo;s past 50 years in terms of economic development versus environmental protection, many responded with a similar story: before China&rsquo;s economic liberalisation in the late 1970s &ldquo;there was not enough to eat&rdquo;. But since there was not nearly as much impactful economic activity back then, things were still relatively environmentally friendly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For many of my interviewees, this was personal. Many were over 40 and grew up in the countryside, meaning they personally experienced &ldquo;not having enough to eat&rdquo;. For example, Mr Liang, who grew up on a farm in Jiangxi province, told me: &ldquo;When I was a child, I ate just rice and vegetables all the time. Meat was a luxury. I was always in some semi-hungry state, unable to concentrate on my studies.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Despite the progress made in the last 40 years in Chinese society, my interviewees had a degree of nostalgia for the past and questioned this progress.  <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We [China] plunged into economic development in hopes of gaining a happier life, but I&rsquo;m not sure if material wealth has made us any happier in the long-run,&rdquo; Mr Hu, a plant manager for one of the largest chemical companies in Zhejiang province, told me. When I asked why, he answered, &ldquo;Just look at the air pollution here in Zhejiang, or the quality of our drinking water. People are getting cancer at alarming rates. It wasn&rsquo;t like this when I was little. Maybe we didn&rsquo;t have enough to eat back in the 70s and 80s, but the sky was blue and the water was clean.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pan, young owner of a sporting goods factory and company who grew up in the 1990s, said: &ldquo;Look at me, I have a luxury car, a nice house, and a successful business. But frankly, for my kids&rsquo; sake, I would rather sacrifice some economic progress in return for some blue sky and clean water &#8211; the kind my father had when he was growing up.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Despite acknowledging the problem, Mr Pan didn&rsquo;t seem to have any solutions when asked what was changing in his own life. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to the government to reduce these environmental problems, we try to do some recycling in our factory &#8211; we do more than most injection moulders, but we need some better national policies.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><i>Mr Wang, a manager, had the most extreme response:<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><i>Zhang: Can you tell me more about your personal experience growing up in the 1970s and 1980s?<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><i>Mr Wang: Everyone was poor. But everyone was innocent. Have you heard of the saying &ldquo;to be poor is to be happy&rdquo;? It was sort of like that. On a summer day like this, we had no air conditioning, but the whole neighbourhood would all just go outside and eat watermelon. Now I don&rsquo;t even know our neighbours living in my apartment! We had hopes and dreams of getting wealthy, buying a car, a house. Now that we&rsquo;ve met our dreams, I&rsquo;m not sure we&rsquo;re any happier.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><i>Zhang: Then why go on owning a car and making money?<\/p>\n<p><\/i>  <i>Mr Wang: Sometimes I wonder that. I think it would be better to live the 1980s. I wish there was something I could do to get out of this rat race, but there&rsquo;s no other way. <\/p>\n<p><\/i>  People tend to overemphasise the positive things in the past and deemphasise the negative. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mills.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/psyc\/publications\/ChungLin_in-press.pdf\">Some academic<\/a> studies indicate that this effect is even more pronounced among Chinese than Westerners. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Wang&rsquo;s answer that he couldn&rsquo;t do anything was indicative of the response I got from others &#8211; it seemed like life was going too fast around them for them to stop and think deeply. When I asked Mr Wang whether he preferred the 1980s enough to let his son go through his own childhood in the 70s and 80s, Mr Wang replied, &ldquo;Well, that wouldn&rsquo;t be too practical- my son wouldn&#8217;t be able to get an education and compete in today&rsquo;s society.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another reason I think my interviewees didn&rsquo;t think too deeply about this question is that they believed that China&rsquo;s environmental problems would be fixed eventually. <\/p>\n<p>In my previous article, I mentioned that my interviewees had a deep trust in the power of technology to solve environmental problems, coupled with a belief that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/6080-How-are-nimby-campaigns-changing-China-\">environmental problems<\/a>, no matter how serious were reversible. Among the factory managers, there was recognition of the seriousness of certain environmental problems, but a lack of alarmism prevalent in the West. <\/p>\n<p>One interviewee, Mr Yuan who runs a toy-manufacturer, put it this way: &ldquo;We have problems with water quality right now, but of course China&rsquo;s rivers can be cleaned up. Germany&rsquo;s Danube River was heavily polluted during its industrial revolution years ago but now look how clean it is!&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Although my study wasn&rsquo;t a formal survey, its findings concur with surveys done on the general Chinese population <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/6394-Environmental-concerns-on-the-rise-in-China\/en\">showing environmental concern on the rise<\/a>, especially with regards to air and water pollution. Quality of life and happiness is a basic lens with which my interviewees viewed environmental problems. Environmental protection isn&rsquo;t anti-development. It was just left behind in the Chinese society&rsquo;s initial rush to prosper through economic means. <\/p>\n<p>Only now with increasing popular awareness of environmental problems,  are factory managers, who are contributors to both economic progress and  environmental problems, pausing to think some things, such a healthy  environment for children to grow up in, can&rsquo;t be bought with money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all Chinese factory owners are happy with China&rsquo;s growth at all costs approach and wonder whether they were happier growing up in the 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