Comparison between the China Since 1900 and To Live

China back then had many problems with the government, the economy, and the general population. The government was Communist, and i am not saying that is a bad thing; in India there is a state named Kerla. This state is fully Communist, but it is the highest literate state in India and is also one of the largest domestic markets. It is clean and one of the best places India has to offer, and why because the government is Communist and makes all the right decisions. I back up the idea of Communism, but i think the only reason it can never work is because of man's greed. In the movie, the government killed the man simply because he was rich. But i belive, the government kept some rich people alive, because they needed people with jobs other than farming to strengthan the economy. Most of the people living in China at the time were farmers or towns people whose main industry was agriculture, but now China is the main industry just about anything. The population in 1982 was in the 1 billions, and the future predictors realised that if birth rates like this contine most of the familes will live in hardship and poverty. The Chinese came up with the one child system, and this prohibits every family to only having one baby. If they followed the rule, the family would get rewarded somehow by the government. This wasn't fully a good idea, because in Chinese tradtion males are more importan than females, so baby girls were often murdered after birth, and thus not breaking the rule. Another big problem that China was having was their neighboring countries. They broke ties with USSR, becuase they wanted make better relations with capitalist countries. This break up later lead to a war with Vietnam, because China did not want Vietnam to get to strong because they had a treaty with USSR. Also, since they invaded Tibet and kicked out the Dali Lama, things in Tibet werent going to well. The Dali Lama fleed to India. India had always been friendly with China, but now they were mad about the Tibet incident and after a while war was waged. China basically kicked our asses. China was growing stronger and making more improvements with themselves as the economy strengthened, education got better, and the army was very strong.