181. In your country, is there more need for land to be left in its natural condition or is there more need for land to be developed for housing and industry? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
According to its vast territory and high-density population, China, my homeland needs more land to be developed for housing and industry than that to be left in natural condition. This essay will discuss this viewpoint specifically and reasonably.
First and foremost, Chinese population makes housing necessary and vital which requires a considerable size of land. China has the most population in the world, as everyone knows, approximately 1.3 billion people, accounting for twenty-one percent of the world population. To house such an immeasurable number of population, Chinese government makes great efforts to develop real estate. Apartment houses are erected, investments are largely made, and even every inch of the land seems likely to be stuffed a house. However, the demands cannot yet be satisfied. In the late of the last century, the majority of the population centered in Beijing and other metropolises located on the southeast coastline, but nowadays, conversely, this coverage has expanded towards the hinterland of China, such as the northeast and the southwest. Take my home town Changchun as an example, before this century, it was just a medium-sized city in the northeast area, but today, it is more than twice and contains many new communities and large shopping centers established in the outermost suburbs.
Next, the industrial development needs land sources. As a developing country, of which the economy comparatively lags behind that of the high developed countries, China needs to build more large-scaled factories to accelerate the industrial development. Architectonically speaking, the practical functions of a factory determine its size. One is that the mechanized industrial production demands large interiors in which manufacturing could be carried on. Another is that the administration of giant industrial and commercial concerns required office buildings of unprecedented size, containing suites of offices easily accessible to employees and customers. Besides, from the social point of view, people need jobs. A new factory, unquestionably, will draw a huge quantity of populations to find jobs, which promise to provide a good housing condition as prerequisite. Communities of employees will further enlarge the factory. After certain amounts of shops, schools and banks are built, the factory will eventually become a district of a city. This is the very process in wich my hometown Automotive Industries Development Area, the most important district in Changchun has formed.
Consequently, taking into account of all these factors, we may reach the conclusion that it would be better for China to develop its land for housing and industry based on social and economic reasons. If both of the two problems were well solved, as far as I am concerned, land would find its value.
[ 本帖最后由 AnnaZhang8524 于 2008-10-5 21:05 编辑 ]
