Indian netizens asked: Why is India more developed than China?

We know that what India can become better is its so-called "democracy" system. Many Indian elites believe that India is much more developed than China for two reasons: First, India has long-term one-sided propaganda, and the media is always black in China, rarely reporting positively on China; Second, Indian elites seldom come to China and don't understand the current situation in China.

Both India and China were reborn from the ruins in the late 1940s. India became independent from British colonial rule, while China defeated powerful enemies at home and abroad and won the establishment of a new China. With hundreds of years of colonial history, Indian industrial system is developed in China, and its economic aggregate is higher than that of China. China's national strength has been weak because of the long-term war and the huge war reparations squeezed by foreign powers.

Because of China's weak foundation and the imperialist blockade, China can only rely on its own strength to carry out industrial production and achieve self-sufficiency in national defense. Although China's industrial system has been gradually established for a long time, the development of rural areas and the living standards of farmers have not been improved for a long time. It can be said that the industrialization of China was bought with the humiliation and burden of farmers in China. According to statistics of relevant departments of the United Nations, China is the only country in the world with various manufacturing industries. On the one hand, China's manufacturing industry has occupied the world market, on the other hand, China can achieve a high degree of self-sufficiency!

After the reform and opening up, relying on the accumulation of China in the first 30 years and the huge market cultivated by agricultural production quotas, China has achieved rapid development. In India, due to the private ownership of land and farmers' opposition to land expropriation, industrialization has been greatly restricted, resulting in India's failure to form a complete industrial system so far, and the effect of infrastructure improvement is not significant. India now mainly relies on imported defense equipment, and the developed industries are mainly software OEM and chemical industry, while other industries and service industries are underdeveloped. India could have made use of China's capital and technology to realize industrialization by virtue of its proximity to China, but because India refused to let go of the defeat of 1962, it adopted a hostile policy towards China, which restricted both others and itself.