China led the world for centuries in scientific and agricultural development from their early production of gunpowder to the first cultivation of rice and millet. However, China 's early success was disturbed by centuries of famine, unrest, and war, and Europeans took the reins of world technological development. After WWII, the communist regime wrested control of China and a strict socialist system was implemented. Leaders like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping have transformed China from a fractured state to a global superpower, leading the world in size of population and coming in second for GDP and total land area (East. Web). However, China 's rapid growth and industrialization has left the government with bursting agricultural production in order to provide for their staggering population of over 1 billion people, and weak regulatory practices which roughly resemble those of the US in the 1960 's.
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China has significant resources it could mobilize in educational campaigns and enforcement of regulations regarding antibiotic use. However, this issue is not strictly isolated to China. Nations, even ones with existing regulations, are contributing to this issue. For how serious the threat of antibiotic resistance is, it does not get the attention it deserves on a global scale. In order for this issue to be addressed, people need to be aware of it. The World Health Organization has been working to raise awareness for the overuse of antibiotics, but a stronger multinational effort needs to be made to spread this information and make effective laws which will help combat the frivolous use of these powerful drugs. Our world is too interconnected, and we have too many collective resources to let countries tackle these issues on their own, and ultimately the health of humankind rests on how well this crisis is
China is a massive country, encompassing 56 official ethnic …show more content…
China has significant resources it could mobilize in educational campaigns and enforcement of regulations regarding antibiotic use. However, this issue is not strictly isolated to China. Nations, even ones with existing regulations, are contributing to this issue. For how serious the threat of antibiotic resistance is, it does not get the attention it deserves on a global scale. In order for this issue to be addressed, people need to be aware of it. The World Health Organization has been working to raise awareness for the overuse of antibiotics, but a stronger multinational effort needs to be made to spread this information and make effective laws which will help combat the frivolous use of these powerful drugs. Our world is too interconnected, and we have too many collective resources to let countries tackle these issues on their own, and ultimately the health of humankind rests on how well this crisis is