There are a lot of differences between the British industrial revolution and China’s opening up. However, there are also some similarities between the two reformations. This essay will compare the similarities between the industrial revolution and China’s recently opening up. Revolutions play a large part in history as change happens inevitably, the longer a system stays in action, the more disorganized it becomes; without changes to improve, the system will eventually collapse. Thats why reformations of our governing systems are needed to improve policies and resources and technology so we are ready when change happens. The industrial revolution is defined as the period of time during which work began to be done more by machines in factories than by hand at home in the Cambridge dictionary, this means that during that period, Britain rapidly industrialized, and factories began to be built and people transitioned from working at home at producing handmade little things to working in gigantic factories mass producing products. For example, before the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing was of
ten done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift towards powered, specialized machinery (which decreased the need for specialists because everybody could operate machines), factories, and mass production. As China opens up wider to the outside world, this transition to a new model of development will create huge opportunities for many new industries, ‘It means opportunities for businesses not just in China but across the world.’ (Liu He, 2018) What this means is that as China opens up to the rest of the world, people all around the world can have more chances for business in China. For example, if China didnt open up, China would not have become the factory of the world and there wouldn’t be inexpensive products flooding the world now, with everything made in China, just like there wouldn’t be British products flooding the world 2 hundred years ago. So, If you still want to read my incredibly tedious essay which will probably bore you to death, the key points that we are going to discuss are government policies, urbanization, and factories.