Nowadays,as more and more developed countries are concerned more about ethical and environmental consumption,China has also been influenced by this trend. Undoubtedly, the concept of ethical consumption will influence China’s economic and social development significantly.Furthermore, some effects are positive,while others are negative.
The ethical consumption will benefit China a lot to a large extend. Firstly, this consumption may alleviate the environmental burden of China and ensure its sustainable development.As a developing country under industrilized process,China has already suffered from the environmental challenge that many developed countries faced before. That is, to sustain the economical development at the cost of environment. Moreover, such problems have already brought in many troubles in people’s daily life:Some people is getting cancer because they depend on the polluted water source. Some lands are losing their value because of the abuse of inorganic farming method; Some forests aare disppearing from the earth as the one-time chopsticks are welcome ubiquitously.
Therefore, if there is a lack of healthy concept like ethical consumption,China will lose its developing potential as man people just pursue short-sighted benefits and convenience. Only if there are more eyes on the importance of ethical consumption can such troubles of unbalanced environmental be overcome. Otherwise, if the problem cannot be handled, the environmental proble will become a threshold for China’s development sooner or later. Additionally, as the negative effects of pollution cannot be removed completely in most cases, China may have no method when it realizes the seriousness of the problem. Secondly, ethical consumption can enhance the competitiveness of Chinese product. As most developed countries did before, China is only concentrating on large-scale manufacturing but not on the environment. As a result, many kinds of Chinese products have potential threats to the environment as most of them cannot meet the enronmental demand. Because of this, several kinds of Chinese products are refused by Europe and USA.For example, the products of a famous company were rejected by a European country five years ago. The reason why the products were blocked is that the sofas cannot meet the demand of environment. By chance, I have visited the product line of the company. To tell the truth, the scientific and enronmental level are low in the factory. Besides, many workers are always under the threat of health problem during their production. Moreover, the products contain a large amount of chemical substances which may result in cancer. Therefore, the products will be rejected for sure. Only when the ethical consumption become a common sense can such Chinese countries realize the environmental factor and enhance the corresponding aspects. After that, the brand “Made in China “ will turn green and become popular.
However, it may also have many negative effects on Chinese economic development. Firstly, it will undermine the price advantage of Chinese products. Chinese products are prevailing over the world., since China has the cheapest workforce and raw material However, there are against the principle of ethical consumption. Therefore, Chinese product could lose price advantage partailly. In addition, if a typical Chinese company wants to meet the environmental demand,it should put a lot of effects to improve its products line. However, it needs a lot of capital. Hence, there will be a long way for China to accept ethical consumption.
To sum up, ethical consumption will have both positive and negative effects on China. Nevertheless, China will become a environmentally-friendly industry country with the help of it. Hence, it should be welcome.
