CRI听力:World Says China's Growing Economy Benifits Them: Survey

Many people around the world perceived China's rapid economic growth as benificial to the world economy and were positive that it helped their own local ecnomies, according to a recent global survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.

Richard Wike, Director for Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Center, gave a lecture in Beijing's Jingguang Center yesterday and elaborated on the survey findings which were designed to understand how people in the world saw China and the US.

According to Wike, the survey results showed that most people around the world thought that China's growing economy had a positive impact on their own local economies. In the US, 49 percent of those polled thought that China's growing economy benifited Americans while 42 percent thought that it could harm America's economic interests. In Thailand and Bangladesh, those who had a positive attitude towards China's growing economic strength is as high as 70 percent. About two thirds of the people surveyed in Malaysia, South Korea and Pakistan welcomed China's economic boom. Nearly half of those surveyed in Japan thought that they can benefit from China's development.

Meanwhile in Vietnam, Philippines and India, more people tend to think China's rise to power is detremental to their own national interests, according to the survey.

"Overall people tend to say China's growing economy is a good thing for their country. Even in the United States, where the overall attitude towards China is fairly negative right now, you still see that about half of the Americans thought China's growing economy is actually good for America," said Wike. "We get mostly positive views about China's growing economy in Asia as well, and even in Japan if you look at the numbers there, by a 47 to 39 margin, the Japanese say China's growing economy is good for them, despite all the negative attitudes towards China in Japan," he added.

This survey were conducted earlier this year in 44 countries around the world.

The Pew Research Center provides policymakers, business leaders, the press and the public with independent, authoritative data and analysis about important issues in the United States and around the world.