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作者：飞云 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
兩天前隨印度財長到中國參加--集廿會議--(G20)的北京之行印度記者, 酸酸葡萄寫文章冷嘲熱諷, 說中國經濟增長是吃了類固醇; 中國經濟是"煙花表演式"的經濟;
An Evening in Beijing
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2005 08:24:29 PM ]
BEIJING: Speeding down Beijing's Ring Road No.6 in a Chinese state limo, a thought pops in P.Chidambaram's head. "The Chinese national bird should be a crane," he says.
On either side of the expressway, giant derricks and winches tower over massive apartment blocks and commercial complexes mile after mile. It is impossible to miss the construction boom in an economy on steroids, and India's finance minister is seeing it for the first time; his last visit to China was in 1990 with a Congress Party delegation.
We set out Saturday evening for a dekko at downtown Beijing, having met quite fortuitously at the Zhengan Palace Hotel, venue of the G-20 finance ministers' meeting, some 70kms outside the capital. India's celebrated FM doesn't mind skipping a dinner and pyrotechnics to see what makes China the firecracker economy that is attracting the world's attention.
We park off Changan Avenue, Beijing's showcase main street, and stroll down Wang Fu Jing, the city's commercial hotspot that is located five minutes from Tiananmen Square.
PC tosses on an overcoat over a dark suit, a blue shirt and, most strikingly, a pale pink tie -- perhaps a symbolic revelation of the growing dilution of India's socialist past. On Beijing's busiest street he's elegant -- and incognito(注:unrecognized).
Sauntering into a clothing and textile store laden with a dazzling array of Chinese silks, he is full of searching questions. How does their mulberry compare with ours? Where is the industry centered? After moseying around for a while, he buys two meters of fabric for his granddaughter Aditi. This is not an act of treason, as some political rivals will doubtless scream, but an inquisitive foray into how and why the Chinese are silkily overrunning the India.
"Every outing for me is a learning experience," he says, as we discuss China's boom, India's growth, and the relative status and merits of the two economies. You can hear the frustration in his voice as he talks about the roadblocks.
Hurtling down the tollway, we discuss why India is not up speed with its infrastructure, why the Golden Quadrilateral is still muddling along, why Delhi Metro or Bangalore Airport cannot be replicated rapidly in other cities.
Because, he says, in India, everybody has a case – literally. There are issues of land acquisition, environmental concern, tenders, bidding and the whole slew of processes. Anyone can go to court claiming a project site has a relative's grave or a family temple.
It's an argument that many critics and well-wishers of India don't buy. "India's problem is not too much democracy, but too much bureaucracy," says a senior World Bank official attending the G-20 summit with Paul Wolfowitz, the Bank's president and a former Bush administration official who was among the first to recognize India's potential. "If authoritarian rule was the answer to economic growth, then North Korea would be manna and South Korea would be in doldrums."
Across the street, we pop into a mall. PC goes through the home appliances section of a store, taking in the display with a critical eye. He buys some tea mugs, and by the time we return we return to Zhengan Palace close to midnight, he has a mild headache. It's not easy being India's finance minister and having the country being compared constantly to China.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1265575,curpg-1,fright-0,right-0.cms
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印度財長說中國經濟增長是吃了類固醇;中國經濟是"煙花表演式"經濟;
