Comparison between China and Singapore

Group Work 

Differences:

-Singapore has a smaller population as compared to China. 

-Singapore is a multi racial society unlike China, which is made up of Chinese mainly. Singaporeans experience the different cultures and heritage of different races and we learn to be accepting towards the differences between ourselves because we still belong to the same country. Singapore consist of races like Chinese, Malay and Indian. However, when we went to China, the only race we see is the Chinese and this is also one of the reasons why Singapore and China have a different culture. Singapore is a westernized country thus it's culture is mainly from the west. 

-China is a developing country while Singapore is a developed country.

-China has more space and resources for economic development than Singapore. In Singapore, even though we are a developed country, we have very limited space and resources for anymore development while China on the otherhand, has plenty of space and resources for development. (With this in mind the Singapore government wants to take advantage of this and become trading partners with China. Ranked the 9th largest trade partner with China, this proves to show that even though we have our differences, China is more of a friend than foe to Singapore.)

-China has a richer history as compared to Singapore. With that, China has more historical preservation campaigns and projects unlike Singapore. These rich history and culture can be used to educate current and future generations and at the same time, it is a tourist attraction, leading to the inflow of money for their country. In this aspect, Singapore is losing out because we are focusing more in the upgrading of our country.

--Singapore and China have different educational system:

-Lessons are conducted in english here whereas in China, it is in chinese. This once again brings up the topic that Singapore is a westernized country. English had become Singaporeans' first language because we converse mainly in this language. In China, we realized that people could barely speak english and their first language is chinese since they mainly converse in that. 

-They have a 10 minute break in between every period while Singaporean students do not get that privilege. However, the cons of that is that China's students get released from school as late as 5.40pm, while Singapore students get released at around 2.15pm

- It is not compulsory to take up a CCA in China however, for holistic development, secondary students in Singapore are required to have a CCA.

-China has more of their own brands that they have invested a lot of money in, to export to the other countries so as to widen their business partnerships and have more inflow of money. However,Singapore do not have as many personal brands exported and made aware of for the rest of the world. Hence, we lack in this area of development.