Chapter 844: India (3)

Finally leaving Mumbai, Zhou Shi felt all kinds of unreal for this bizarre experience, but when he saw the two beautiful women around him who were charming and full of Indian style, he still accepted the reality.

"India's per capita income is around 80,000 rupees a year, and the middle class accounts for about 7 percent of the population if the monthly income is 20,000 to 100,000 rupees. However, there are many people who think that a monthly income of 5,000 rupees is considered a middle class, so if you calculate it this way, there are about 300 million middle class in India......" the man from Reliance Industries told Zhou Shi.

"India has 20 to 30 states (the equivalent of the provinces of Huaxia), each with its own official language. It is different from writing to grammar, and nearly half of the country's population does not know Hindi. The rupee is represented in twenty or thirty languages. If you take into account the dialects of each state, there are more than 300 languages spoken in all of India. This has caused great difficulties for us to eradicate illiteracy in India, and it has also formed a great obstacle to the movement of people, and some people will not even be able to leave their villages for the rest of their lives, because the language he speaks is different from that of the surrounding places!

"Every state in India has very great privileges in the legislature and the judiciary, especially in taxation. Even the transportation of goods between two adjacent states has to pay taxes, which makes it very difficult to do logistics in India, and before the goods are shipped, the commissioners of the states along the road come to ask you for taxes. Similarly, many states do not teach Hindi in order to maintain their cultural "independence". Many of our group's employees of different origins must communicate with each other in English. "Faithful woman

"This can't be deliberately done by the ruling class in order to maintain their own privileges, is it? There's no reason why they don't know how important a unified language is!"

"Maybe it's to protect traditional culture!" said Tata Beauty

"Is this the traffic in India?" Zhou Shi looked at the congested road in front of him, and wondered how he could stop when he wanted to, change lanes when he wanted to, and sometimes cows, horses, sheep, monkeys, dogs and other animals appeared, and he was not afraid of people. There was cow dung everywhere, garbage heaps, and no one cleaned them up, so they were naturally placed there.

"Just get used to it!"

Zhou Shi smacked his lips and didn't say much, although India's railway mileage is only more than 60,000 kilometers, and there are four different types of rails, the unification of rails has not been completed for decades, and the low efficiency can be seen. And then all kinds of old and decaying phenomena. The level of comfort on the railway is much less than that of the Huaxia Railway, uh, except for the Huaxia Spring Festival. However, India's daily railway delivery is about three times that of China, and the gap is somewhat large. It seems that in India, the railway has become their daily means of transportation.

Walking all the way, he didn't feel any comfort, especially in terms of going to the toilet, drinking water and eating, so that he wanted to try Indian food and pulled his stomach several times, but fortunately, his body was much better than his previous life after a long period of exercise.

"This is the case with water in India?" said Zhou Shi

"About 70% of India's groundwater is polluted, mainly by untreated sewage poured into water bodies that eventually seep into the surrounding areas, industrial wastewater is discharged directly into the ground, and overuse of pesticides is polluted by groundwater, and groundwater is gradually being lost, and it is very likely that by 2020, 21 cities will face all groundwater drying up. Surface water is even more polluted, with large amounts of sewage flowing directly into rivers without any treatment. According to government statistics, as many as 600 million people are currently facing "severe and extremely severe water shortages". Almost 200,000 people die each year as a result of drinking "unclean" water. Every day, one out of three people will be severely deprived of water...... "faithful woman."

"Isn't there anyone trying to figure it out?" Zhou Shi

"This family seems to be something uncontrollable, and it is impossible to solve it!"

"Uncontrollable?" Zhou Shi said strangely

"When a lot of us encounter some problems that are difficult to solve, we don't want to care about them, think it's an uncontrollable factor, and then we just let it go and don't care about it at all. And many people think that water should be free, and would rather drink polluted water than buy it, and even more so than save water, and the waste of water resources is also very serious...... "Faithful woman."

"Well, this question is really difficult. "Zhou Shi, think about the illiteracy of thirty or forty percent in India, hundreds of languages, and many truths cannot be explained. There are many things in India that cannot be done by reason. There are many people who do not regard people as human beings and do not want to give up their own interests and maintain their own enjoyment, so naturally there are so many problems.

There are many people who think that India values reincarnation is the next life, so this life can be endured, this is the characteristic of their culture, in Zhou Shi's view, it is just the imagination of some brainless people, human yearning for a better life is human nature, it is impossible for everyone to be an ascetic, everyone can raise their right arm for decades without putting it down. It's just that most Indians don't enjoy a good life, and their culture and education limit their living space and imagination. This is similar to in China, when there is no good life, everyone is willing to be poor, but if someone wants to return Huaxia to the life of decades ago, I am afraid no one will accept it. As the old saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality, so he doesn't believe that there are still many human beings in this world who are unwilling to enjoy it.

All the way to the north, Zhou Shi wandered around various cities in India, feeling the most real India, and finally one day, he won the Faithful Girl and remembered her name Niha Dalvi. She was very curious about Zhou Shi and asked some questions that she didn't dare to ask before.

"Why would you put your job off for a trip like this?"

"I wanted to invest in India, but I didn't have a first-hand feel for it. This kind of trip has given me a clearer idea of what it is like to live in India. "Zhou Shi

"But will you be able to do a market research soon?"

"Do you think I'm still short of money now?" Zhou Shi didn't answer, but asked Neha

"You are known as the world's richest ......" Neha

"The purpose of investing in India is not just to make money, I want to do something more meaningful while making money, or to seek spiritual satisfaction. "Zhou Shi

"So you don't take pictures or videos all the way?" Neha

"Take pictures and videos for other people to see, I don't need to!" Zhou Shi

"No wonder you're able to donate more than $10 billion......" Neha said with reverence

"What does this have to do with donating money?" Zhou Shi wondered

"It's okay, it's just that I figured it out. By the way, why should you come to India and not somewhere else. "Neha

"I have invested a lot in China, the United States and Europe, but only India, a market with a population of 1.3 billion, has not invested a lot ......," Zhou Shi