State-owned power company China Three Gorges Renewables Group will build an 8 GW solar farm as part of a nearly $11 billion energy project.

State-owned power company China Three Gorges Renewables Group will build an 8 GW solar farm as part of a nearly $11 billion integrated energy project.

  • DeceptichumEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Second largest economy in the world, “still a developing country”.

    The people aren’t worse off because they’re not developed, they’re worse off because their government is even more corrupt.

    • @cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Their economy is literally less developed. Country size has nothing to do with it; India is on track to surpass Japan’s GDP but no one would dispute that it is much less developed than Japan or any other OECD country.

      • DeceptichumEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        Their economy is super developed.

        The citizens are not reaping the benefits of that development.

        • @cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          No, if it was just a matter of having a well developed economy whose fruits are distributed poorly, then their GDP per capita (literally economic output divided by people) would be high.

          But it’s not. It’s among the middle-income countries, just below Malaysia. Which seems about right in terms of the quality of life of the average citizen.