On The Relationship Between Foreign Investment And Sustainable Development In China

Since the beginning of China's reform and opening to the outside, it has made remarkable achievement in attracting foreign capitals. At present, the foreign investment has become an important strength promoted the economic development of China. At the same time, the voice about sustainable development is becoming louder and louder in the world. Implementing sustainable development strategy in China is very urgent too.Using and attracting foreign investment have played an important role in the economic development of China, but at the same time, some drawbacks have appeared in the course of utilizing foreign capitals. For instance: The foreign businessmen made use of the opportunities investing in China to predatorily use our natural resources and to seriously endanger and pollute our natural environment. They may also abuse our human resources. These problems had bad influences on our sustainable development to some extent. To our country, how to appropriately deal with the relationships between using foreign investments and sustainable development has a very important strategic meaning. This is exactly the reason I select this topic to discuss: 《Comments on the relationships between the foreign investments and sustainable development-A perspective from the environment and resources》 .This thesis has not only analyzed the basic state, essential feature, and important functions of using foreign investments to accelerate our economic development since the beginning of China's economic reform and opening to the outside, but also has explained the real meaning, characteristics, and developing history of sustainable development in details. The most important things are that, this thesis has also analyzed the mutual promotion and conflicting between the foreign capitals and sustainable development, especially focused on the harmful influences made by foreign investments on China's natural environment and resources. According to the domestic and foreign experiences and lessons in using foreign investment that the author has already grasped, this article also has done a systematic research on China's sustainable development strategy and how to appropriately use foreign investments to attain sustainable development. The author also has put forward a lot of positive countermeasures to the malpractices in using foreign investments such as how to stop foreign pollution invading, how to prevent or reduce environment pollution, how to protect our natural resources, how to improve our domestic environment protection standards, how to manage our resources and environment as national assets, how to establish correct achievement ideas, how to implement recycle economy strategy and popularize green GDP index system, how to protect the workers' rights to promote social progress, and so on.