Galeazzo Santini
Q. Why has the world changed its attitude towards China?
A. Because of the significant progress China has made, the world has to change its attitude towards it.
Q. Discuss the Chinese agricultural system.
A. Chinese agriculture runs through the system of communes with subdivisions into production brigades and teams. Still, the greater part of the peasant masses stay put and carry on their traditional intensive labour. Agricultural mechanization is being introduced with considerable caution.
Q. How does China rely on its own resources?
A. The Chinese have a decentralized economic system. They rely on their own resources and do not import foreign machines. Indigenous equipment can produce bigger, faster, better and cheaper results.
Q. Describe a day in the life of a Chinese student.
A. Chinese students remain at school from 8 to 11 o’clock. Then they go home for lunch and return to school at one thirty again until 3 o’clock. From 4 o’clock on they relax, reading the papers and listening to the radio.
Q. Write a note on the Chinese women. OR
Q. What are the social security benefits provided to Chinese women?
A. Chinese women lack Western femininity. They use no beauty products. They have many social benefits. These include an 8-hour working day, free hospitalization and medical care. They also have nursery and infant schools and 56 paid days before childbirth without charge. Even women in the West do not have all this.
Q. What are the social security benefits provided to the Chinese workers?
A. Free accommodation is available in factories or at cheaper rates outside them. Medical treatment is free for workers and their family is charged 50 per cent of it. Workers eat three meals a day from the cafeteria of their factories at affordable prices. There is an assistance system if the expenses of the family exceed a worker’s income. They also enjoy a day off during the week.
Q. ‘It is the people and not the things that are decisive.’ Discuss.
A. It demonstrates that modern technology cannot replace man. When a number is not simply a juxtaposition of persons but a compact whole, then it tends to become ‘power’. They are able to overcome any difficulty where machines fail.
Q. ‘The heart of the matter is the need to root out selfishness.’ Discuss.
A. We should eradicate selfishness. We must encourage the emergence of selfless, dedicated men whose happiness consists of serving their fellowmen in the fullest sense of the human community. Every individual should contribute to collective welfare.
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