The industrial sector's contribution, which dominates the GDRP, on the one hand increases economic development and on the other hand decreases environmental quality. Most of it is generated from the industrial sector's contribution, which harms environmental quality such as water pollution, air pollut...
(I read this is why China sold nukes to Pakistan, to keep India busy) Look at this (snippet) data that I got from the country data briefings of China and India (from 1999 - 2003: ChinaGDP per head ($ at PPP) 3,651 3,980 4,330 4,690GDP (% real change pa) 7.14 7.95 7.30 ...