Discovery Channel: China Rises
Getting Rich
S1 • E1 Jan 1, 2006
7.4
In just 25 years, this land of 1.3 billion people has achieved the most rapid economic advance of any nation in history by scrapping its fanatical devotion to collectivism and embracing private enterprise with all the ruthless zeal of 19th century robber barons. Learn how the poor are coping with the cost of China's success and how piracy, pollution and a looming energy crisis could derail the country's "economic miracle."
