When traveling around as an Austrian in the world, while other people have information about your background, you really only get two different answers: "Ooooh, Australia! Sidney! Very beautiful! "Or" Ooooh, Austria! Mozart! Music! Very beautiful! ". Here in China it's not consistently different. However, it is now increasingly the Chinese that - in addition to appreciate classical music a different aspect of our Alpine republic - if they know Austria: nature.
Man and Nature - is in China a very ambivalent relationship. Booming shrouded in smog million cities on the coast are facing pristine areas in the interior. The fact that this combination in almost all emerging oder Industrieländern gibt, ist nichts Besonderes, allerdings ist der Kontrast fast nirgends dermaßen ausgeprägt wie in China. Zumeist sind es Jugendliche oder Wanderarbeiter, die auf der Suche nach Arbeit, dem Reiz nach Abenteuer und dem Traum von bescheidenem Wohlstand immer öfter in urbane Gebiete abwandern. Zurück in den Dörfern bleiben die Alten, Schwangeren und Kleinkinder. Bereits heute leben zwei Drittel der chines. Bevölkerung in Städten, Tendenz stark steigend. Die Landflucht ist zu einer tickenden ökonomischen Zeitbombe geworden, denn während immer mehr Menschen in die städtischen Dienstleisungssektoren strömen, müssen gleichzeitig immer weniger Menschen das ganze Land auf dem Agrarsektor versorgen. The government has recognized this problem long ago, successful measures to counter them have so far not found to be - too big for this is the difference between city and country.
adds In this respect, China is perfectly in the long list of emerging markets. For while in Western industrialized nations of the drive for green in which the population is getting louder and more and more people prefer to live on land or at least in the suburbs of an agglomeration, the general trend is subject to emerging countries continue to a more pragmatic decision nature. If you ask the average Chinese today whether they prefer to live in the country or live in the city, will be found probably as good as any supporter of rural life. This is not surprising, is different but a typical chines. Farming village on an average one-horse town in Austria, but many times.
make-believe in Fuli, a village in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi. The booming tourism in the neighboring town of Yangshuo - less than 10km away - this has little bearing on the everyday lives of the lost village residents, tourists or even foreigners rarely go here. Paved roads are not current now and then, only water from the village well. Undeterred by our visit and the idyllic mountain landscape that surrounds the village do, the farmers work in the rice field. With a bike and a fake Rolex watch in his possession, the mayor is considered the richest residents of the village. He proudly presents us with his modest home and his growing chicks. It seems as if time would stand still on this little patch of earth for a brief moment, you really should do to settle down here in the pension.
scene change. High summer in Beijing, home to 15 million people, 4 million cars pass daily through the streets of this metropolitan area, practically hangs a traditional Smogglocke low over the city level, the average visibility is empty these days, one to two kilometers, Restaurants their rubbish and their WC outlet side of the road, which
hinglüht in grueling 35 degrees right, the air is thick and sticky. Not for nothing left countless numbers every year to look for during the summer months, the capital city to relax in remote natural areas. Main goals are often national parks (in China often UNESCO World Heritage Site), such as Mount Wuyi, which is the peak season, like all tourist destinations in China flooded with people virtually, so that one of sheer crowds nature itself already provides almost impossible. Those who still can not be deterred and continues to follow the urge to be green, even at relatively astronomical day ticket prices beyond the 20 € one eye compress. is much more comfortable there because in the cities. The few people who have stayed here over the summer fun, in the urban parks. Huge parks such as the Temple of Heaven in Beijing and the West Lake in Hangzhou serve not only as a green lung of modern metropolitan areas, but also as a recreational area for the local population. That pay for public parks often a small entrance fee, is in China now as common as the paid public toilet in Europe. The rush of visitors to the city parks reduces the low entrance fee in any case, quite the contrary, many are now extra-Leue in the parks "because the entrance fee, the neatness and cleanliness of the facility is guaranteed" - two variables from the typical Chinese urban population has clearly not enough. In the park itself is entirely natural in the spotlight: as in a botanical garden is in front of each tree is a small sign with chines. and Latin name of the tree, as if there would be nothing more beautiful in this world make China almost euphoric countless photos of flower buds, roots or ties gold fish in small ponds.
As this behavior is not consistent with a principle existing environmental consciousness among the Durchschnitssbevölkerung, is difficult to explain. Garbage is not separated even begin to (or even glass and paper): Trash indeed possess quasi alibi version has two plates with the inscription "recycable" and "Not recycable," but in the end of the waste ends up in the same bin. And while you back to the west, the entire auto industry because of the economic crisis, a gear, the luxury car market is booming nowhere as extreme as in China at present: this does is nobody concerned about fuel consumption and emissions - you can afford to be thirsty Audi or Mercedes horsepower monster simply or not. But even with the "little guy" has the environmental awareness certainly something to be desired, because in the chines. population seems to be connected to the term "garbage" inextricably linked to the size of the object to waste. For example, while old magazines are quite as rubbish and disposed of good, small items such as tissues or cigarette packages are simply thrown into the street. A green China? Think again!
The party has now realized the seriousness of the situation and in the National People's Congress 2009, the environmental protection as one of the most important policy goals declared in the coming years. This, however, will tell. Only recently has the verheerenste drought in decades, the usually rainy south-western China heimgesucht, Ernteschäden sowie Millionen Menschen ohne Trinkwasserversorgung waren die Folge.
So mancher munkelt sogar, dass die Dürreperiode und das vorangegangene Regenchaos in der Provinz Guangdong anno 2009 eine direkte Folge des umstrittenen Drei Schluchten Staudammes seien. Da hilft auch ein besorgt dreinschauender Premierminister beim Besichtigen ausgetrockneter Flussbetten oder ein Mut machend singender Jackie Chan im Rahmen eines von der Partei produzierten Musikvideos herzlich wenig. Wenn China wirklich etwas an seiner Umweltpolitik liegt, müssen den Worten nun endlich Taten folgen. 
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