China is the world's second largest economy and the world's most populous country with over 1.3 billion people. At the same time, India is the second most densely populated country and has 1.1 billion people. While 1.1 billion people constitute a large amount of purchasing power, India continues to have the highest concentration of poor people in the world. In particular, the Indian economy consists of agriculture, textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation and software services (Just the fact, 2006). In this article I will discuss and compare China and India's economy, politics, offshore, social issues, education system, government structure and infrastructure. The Chinese Economy and the Goods and Services It Provides The Chinese economy has been changed by the continuing influences of economic reform. Before 1949, China was a traditional society with a traditional family-based economy. As an example, 90% of China's population lived in rural areas and depended on agriculture. However, “China's new leaders turned their backs on China's traditional family economy and set out to develop a massive socialist industrial complex through direct government control” (Wei & Rowley, 2009). China modeled its economy from socialism for 30 years until it was associated with serious shortages. As a result, China launched an economic reform that transformed the Chinese economy from “a Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented economy, but still within a rigid political framework controlled by the Communist Party ” (Wei & Rowley, 2009). experienced great economic growth after the start of reform in 1978, and has progressively continued to expand over the course of...... middle of paper ......k: Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved from http://0-go.galegroup.com.library.dcccd.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3403700565&v=2.1&u=txshracd2500&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=wRothermund, D. (2002). India: education system. In K. Christensen and D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (Vol. 3, pp. 17-20). New York: Sons of Charles Scribner. Retrieved from http://0-go.galegroup.com.library.dcccd.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3403701275&v=2.1&u=txshracd2500&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=wWei, J.Q., and Rowley, C. ( 2009). China. In C. Wankel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World (Vol. 1, pp. 268-272). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc. Retrieved from http://0-go.galegroup.com.library.dcccd.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3201500172&v=2.1&u=txshracd2500&it=r&p=GVRL&sw= wXinhuanet.com (2003) Healthcare. Retrieved online May 4, 2012, 2003 from http://202.84.17.11/english/china_abc/health.htm