Beijing's future will not depend only on technology. But also and above all from the water

China aspires to become 'green' in terms of renewable energy, but for now large areas in the center and east of the country are drying up due to a long-lasting drought. The Yangtze - the "blue river" and the longest waterway in Asia - has shrunk greatly, and the "land of fish and rice", as the area around Lake Honghu is called, risks losing the crops. China needs not only investment in renewable energy but also in water resources. The tumultuous industrial development consumes a lot of water, and the change in nutritional patterns requires resources for agriculture and pastures. These are indicators of fragility on the one hand, but on the other hand they make up an inexorable need for investment which underlies, in addition to the country's 'desire to grow', also the empire of growth. China is like a bicycle: if it stops, it falls.
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