So what if we compare China's Zhejiang province, and a country called Ukraine, which one is better?

[yahoocom1984]

why we compare them? Because they have roughly the same size in terms of population and others

Ukraine

Zhejiang

Population:

1. Zhejiang: 50 million
2. Ukrane: 45 million

Land area size:

1. Ukrane: 600,000 km2
2. Zhejiang: 100,000 km2

high speed rail outside of Ningbo city, Zhejiang

GDP:

1. Zhejiang : 650 billion USD (2014)
2. Ukrane: 130 billion USD (2014)

GDP per capita:

1. Zhejiang: 13000 USD per person
2. Ukraine: 2800 USD per person

Government revenue:

1. Zhejiang: 105 billion USD (2013)
2. Ukraine: 50 billion USD (2013)



Exports:

1.Zhejiang: 225 billion USD (2013)
2. Ukraine: 70 billion USD (2013)


Imports:

1. Zhejiang: 100 billion USD (2013)
2.Ukraine: 87 billion USD (2013)

Economy growth rate:

1. Zhejiang: 7.5% (2014)
2. Ukraine: -6% (2014)

Life expectancy:

1. Zhejiang: 78 years old
2. Ukraine: 68.74 years old


Human development Index:

1.Zhejiang: 0.841 (very high)
2. Ukraine: 0.740 (high)


Fortune Global 500 companies (number of ):

1. Zhejiang: 2 companies in Fortune Global 500 (Zhejiang Materials Industry group and Geely automobile)
2. Ukraine: 0 company

 

[tsarbomba]

So what if we compare California to Zhejiang province? Stop this nonsense.

 

[DrawingDead]

So what if we compare California to Zhejiang province? Stop this nonsense.

California?? No, Pennsylvania is enough. 13 million people, 664 billion in GDP. Pretty similar to the same area too.

 

[yahoocom1984]

So what if we compare California to Zhejiang province? Stop this nonsense.

Zhejiang ranks 4th in China, so what about any India states can compete with Zhejiang in terms of Nominal GDP?

haha..

you can't win right?

California?? No, Pennsylvania is enough. 13 million people, 664 billion in GDP. Pretty similar to the same area too.

So what's the growth rate for Pennsylvania?\

For Zhejiang we have 7.5% growth rate every year, so I think we can reach this level just in several years, 7 years ago the GDP per capital is only $4000, now is over $13000, to reach $ 52000 may take 7-8 years

The urbanization for Zhejiang is only 62%, still has a lot potential to grow

 

[tsarbomba]

Zhejiang ranks 4th in China, so what about any India states can compete with Zhejiang in terms of Nominal GDP?

haha..

you can't win right?

I never said India will win in any comparison. I'm just saying that gloating by comparing your country with others should only be done when your country is the best. I'm sorry to say the reality is different. China's provinces aren't close to boastworthy compared to the United States. Sorry.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Lol Ukraine fighting a civil war. Nice comparison.

 

[biendong]

Zhejiang was country of Yue King Cou Jian 越王句踐.

 

[Superboy]

Ukraine doesn't have 45 million people. That was back in 2001 the last census.

 

[yahoocom1984]

In these regions, Peasants live in casual life.

They don't even need to work, just rent their houses and lands to others, then just collect their rent. A lot of peasants' families have assets worth over USD 10 million.



The following images shows some rural villages in Zhejiang's average peasants' life (Hangzhou city)


Zhuzhuang villages (outside of Hangzhou city)

Rural area villages outside of Fuyang county (A county belongs to Hangzhou city)

Rural area villages outside of Hangzhou city

Farmers prepare Salty ducks and fishes

Rural area near West lake, a road to Meijiawu villages

So this is Zhejiang.. The rural area are richer than cities. The peasants are richer than city people.

 

[metronome]

is Ukraine even a country anymore ?

 

[black-hawk_101]

I think China is really a bad country.

 

[DoTell]

is Ukraine even a country anymore ?

Of course Ukraine is a country. It's a "democratic" and "free" country. The freedom fighters got what they wanted. Just like Iraq, Egypt, Libia, Syria. They now have a government of the "people", for the "people".

 

[Edison Chen]

Zhejiang is rich, especially the rural area. Like the history of Western world, when industrialization began, rural residents and workers flock into cities, which expanded the cities, when developed, the rich started to move from cities to rural areas, because there is no actual differences between cities and villages, all the public facilities or resources like hospital, schools, supermarkets have located in rural villages.

So what if we compare California to Zhejiang province? Stop this nonsense.

In terms of gross GDP, except California, Texas, New York, other states are not much too better than China's provinces.

 

[definitelynotIndian]

It just feels like the richer a country becomes the cleaner it gets. We can only hope that one day we become just as good.

 

[yahoocom1984]

The truth is Zhejiang's true living standard is much higher than its GDP per capita, a lot of South Koreans reside in Zhejiang, Shanghai and don't want to leave.

Zhejiang's living standard is higher than South Korea, but the GDP per capita is lower than SK.

Most third world countries like India still have slums in big cities like Mumbai and Dehli, so don't compare your places to our Yangze-river delta region (zhejiang, jiangsu provinces), because you can't compare them. The differences are too big.

in our Yangze-river delta region, we already elimnate the abosolutely poverty